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The 33rd General Council, through the appropriate division or body, encourages dialogue with other denominations in Canada, the United States and other world communities about the mutual concerns of primary food producers.
WHEREAS The United Church of Canada does not have a clearly defined policy on how persons with pastoral responsibilities within The United Church of Canada should respond to disclosures of child abuse; and WHEREAS many legal jurisdictions in Canada have enacted legislation which requires persons with knowledge of sexual and/or physical abuse of children to report their knowledge to appropriate authorities; and
This 33rd General Council urges that all conferences become aware of current studies of child abuse, such as the Rix Rogers, and that they give consideration to the recommendations directed to the churches in this report and that all conferences be asked to assess the adequacy of abuse counselling in their own boundaries; And that this 33rd General Council speak urgently of the needs to their political representatives urging them to give them priority as needed.
Whereas our God creator call is the responsibility and privilege of stewardship of the land, and Whereas it is the right of those most directly affected to have free participation in decisions that affect their lives and Whereas there has been a steady and intentional erosion of numbers of small family farms THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the 33rd General Council of The United Church of Canada adopt the following statement:
The 33rd General Council: 1 urges United Churches across Canada to initiate volunteer literacy programs and/or support literacy programs already established;
The United Church of Canada believes that there must be a just, sustainable and participatory economy for all people Keywords: Fishing, Conservation, Newfoundland, Aboriginal Fishing Rights, East Coast Fishery, Fishery, Cod Moratorium, Moratorium, Fish quotas, Seals, Sealing, Fishery Policy, Foreign Fishery, Offshore Fishery, Oceans, Seas
WHEREAS corporate concentration and control in the market place creates disempowerment for government and food producers and, WHEREAS this also creates economic hardship for primary food producers and, WHEREAS government assistance to multi-national corporations is not in the best interests of either primary food producers or consumers. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the 33rd General Council urge the federal and provincial Governments to alter their present economic assistance to multinational corporations involved in food production, processing and distribution in order to more justly meet the needs of primary food producers.
WHEREAS primary food production policy needs to reflect an understanding of sustainability THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the 33rd General Council endorses the following principles of Sustainable Agriculture.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the 33rd General Council of The United Church of Canada establish as its policy that: recycled paper to be used for publications, correspondence, reports, documents, and forms used by the General Council, and encouraged throughout the church, within the practical limits and requirements for existing equipment and specific production requirements for certain documents; this policy be implemented to move toward a goal by the end of 1991 of having the majority of the paper used by paper which has been recycled;
We welcome the fact that 22 countries have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Children and that it is now in effect.
