Lobbying Ottawa - Day 1

Today was the first day of the lobbying section of the CASA conference that I mentioned I was currently involved in in my post yesterday.

All of the CASA delegates that are attending the conference had meetings set up throughout the morning and afternoon with Members of Parliament and staff members. I had a meeting this morning with Mr. Wayne Marston (NDP) and this afternoon I had a meeting with Dr. Carolyn Bennett (Lib). The two meetings were very different but overall I think that myself and the other delegates in the meeting with me got all the necessary advocacy points across.

I also attended Question Period today.

Right now we are just going over the experiences that the delegates had today and ways to build on them for the rest of the week.

Tonight we have the CASA Alumni dinner which is always a great time to touch base with delegates and all the alumni in the area.