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The 34th General Council calls upon the Government of Canada and all provincial and territorial administrations to ensure the enshrinement of a social charter in the Constitution of Canada; that this charter guarantee access to basic social, health care, and economic services regardless of gender, ability, race, age, sexual orientation or place of residency; and with a commitment from the federal government to the maintenance of national standards and federal funding to achieve the goals of such a charter.
WHEREAS the development of nuclear and other weapons of mass and indiscriminate destruction compromise Christian discipleship by making it impossible for Christians to fulfil their calling to be neighbour to one another and gardener to the creation; and
WHEREAS it has been thoroughly documented by the Inter-Church Committee for Human Rights in Latin America and the Christian Reformed Church, among others, that there is no protection for refugees in the neighbouring Latin American countries to which they flee; and WHEREAS people living as refugees are often at risk in regard to their personal safety, and may have barely adequate and extremely crowded shelter, with one meal a day and water to drink; and
WHEREAS the government of Canada in the early 1970s decided to end Canada’s nuclear role in NATO; and WHEREAS the UN Palme Commission on “Common Security” recommended that nations develop systems of common security together on a global basis rather than against one another through regional defence pacts; and WHEREAS the 29th General Council adopted the recommendation of Project Ploughshares that Canada become a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone; and adopted a petition memorial calling for the dissolution of all military alliances:
