2018-09-12 Meeting

Meeting with Paula from CARP at the Glitter Bean Café, 3:00pm.

Present: Anita, Allison, Barend, Dan (notes)

Meeting with Paula Wedge, Vice-President of CARP NS and chair of health advisory committee

What word to use? LGBT2SQQ?? “Queer” for now.

Paula: Within our ranks we probably have lots of singles and couples of “queer” people. The issues we fight for are issues that are equally applicable to everyone.

2018 Priorities

• Pension Protection
• Resdent Safety in Long Term Care
• RRIF Reform
• Access to Affordable Housing
• Stand (or Sit) Up Straight (physical exercise)

PAULA suggested as an icebreaker, a couple people from the Elderberries come to a board meeting.

What does Elderberries want from CARP?

What if your spouse comes out? What if your spouse goes through gender affirmation?

What can CARP do for us?

• Have a table at the AGM - cost = $100. AGM is usually the end of May, about 225 people come during the day.
• Publish an article in Zoomer.

PAULA will report to the CARP board that there are some possibilities of co-planning an event

PAULA will check in about running a small article about the Elderberries.

Barend: I was a member for a while and it seemed like CARP exists for couples, or people with higher income.

ELDERBERRIES will decide on attending the AGM in May - $100.