How the System Works: Tools for Effective Public Policy Advocacy

Join us for How the System Works - the last of our springtime Capacity Building Workshop Series. This workshop will be presented in english.

The event is free for members and associates and $15 for non members. Please enter the following coupon code: FREE

During this online workshop you will learn the principles, practices, skills and strategies of effective environmental public-policy advocacy in New Brunswick today. It’s intended for both relatively novice policy-advocates and would-be lobbyists as well as advocacy veterans interested in reconsidering approaches that maybe aren’t working.

The workshop will cover:

• how a bill becomes a law — looking inside the legislative assembly
• how key departments work and how to effectively use government online resources
• developing an MLA and community advocacy and outreach plan

The workshop will be led by Lois Corbett from the Conservation Council of New Brunswick. Lois returned home to NB, after 30 years away working on environmental policy elsewhere, to join CCNB as Executive Director. Lois was a Senior Policy Advisor to three Ministers of the Environment in Ontario since 2003 before establishing her own consulting practice. She was previously the Executive Director at the Toronto Environmental Alliance where she helped Toronto City Council adopt its progressive Smog Action Plan, ban the use of cosmetic pesticides, develop its Climate Change Action plan and its waste diversion plan, as well as amendments to its sewer use by-law and building permit process. At TEA Lois also successfully developed the campaign that saw provincial political parties’ commit to phase-out coal-fired electricity in Ontario.