The Canadian Federation for Citizenship (CFC) is a non-partisan, non-sectarian and non-profit organization that works to promote inclusive citizenship to develop and advance homegrown leadership.
Founded by Jenny Gulamani-Abdulla and Ghalib Abdulla in 2017, CFC advocates for forward looking inclusion policies to support pluralism and defend basic human rights.
When citizens and residents participate actively and responsibly in our communities, our country becomes stronger and more resilient.
An enabling environment with inclusive citizenship policies not only creates a sense of belonging, but can deepen loyalty, generating homegrown leaders that seek progress for their country and its peoples.
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“Canada is not a melting pot in which the individuality of each element is destroyed in order to produce a new and totally different element. It is rather a garden into which have been transplanted the hardiest and brightest flowers from many lands, each retaining in its new environment the best of the qualities for which it was loved and prized in its native land.”
(John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada, Progressive Conservative 1957-1963)
Canadian Federation For Citizenship has become a prominent voice on active, responsible and inclusive citizenship as one of Canada's civil society leaders.
Our vision is steered by the three core principles:
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"People coming from other lands have built a nation in which our varied identities are not thrown into a melting-pot but remain to make their own special contributions to the formation and the maturing of a Canadian identity. This is the very essence of the Canadian adventure, this diversity out of which must come unity."
Lester B. Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada, Liberal May 29, 1964 Address to University of Western Ontario.
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