Vote Science
Advocating for Science in Canadian Elections
Check back here during the next Vote Science campaign to send a message to candidates in your riding and let them know that Canadians care about science.
In the meantime, learn how to engage with your local candidates and representatives with our Vote Science resources:
Engaging with your local candidates
Elections are a great time to engage with your local candidates to find out where they stand on science and start building long-term relationships with decision-makers.
- Find your local candidate.
- Don’t know how to engage with your representative? Read our toolkit on how to talk to your representatives, and brainstorm issues you want to talk about.
- Reach out to your candidate. Email them to ask for their views on science, or see if they are willing to meet with you. (The toolkit can help give you some tips – here’s how Dr. Amanda Veri used microbes to invite her MPP!)
- Tell us how it went! This will help us identify science-friendly candidates who will hopefully become science-friendly representatives.
I’m going to #VoteScience because…
There are so many reasons to #VoteScience, whether it’s to support the environment, to increase health and wellness, or develop new technologies. Here’s your chance to highlight why you, personally, are going to #VoteScience.
Let’s get social! Print out this template sign, fill in your reasons and then take a selfie for social media. Make sure to use the #VoteScience hashtag and tag your local candidates!
In the meantime, learn how to engage with your local candidates and representatives with our Vote Science resources:
Candidates can also participate!
Read our toolkit for suggestions on how to engage in the #VoteScience campaign.
Vote Science in the News
Are you an interested organization? Join as a supporter!
The #VoteScience campaign is a national non-partisan bilingual campaign to advocate for science. But our success is a collective one: we need your help to get the word out, and to share these tools to advocate for science with the broader community! Whether you are a student group or a national society, we’d love to have you join as a supporter.
Send us an email to get involved!
