2025 Federal Election Toolkit
What does this federal election mean for abortion rights and access? ARCC believes the consequences could be severe if the Conservative Party under Pierre Poilievre wins the election. Help stop this from happening! Jump into action by using our toolkit. Simply browse the lists below and do whatever you can. Please also share this page widely.
Take Action! What You Can Do Before the 2025 Federal Election
- Inform yourself on the issues by reading key info we’ve put together on:
- Contact your local candidates to let them know you support reproductive rights and to hold them accountable. Send a letter using our Letter Tool and ask them our Questions for Candidates.
- Download our Social Media Kit and share posts on your social media accounts.
- Sign our Solidarity Statement of Support for Abortion Rights and Reproductive Justice.
- Sign our online petition.
- Order free stickers, buttons, posters, and info cards.
- Donate to ARCC or your local reproductive rights group or abortion clinic.
Voting Guide: Candidates to support and oppose
We have created a tool to help you determine which of your candidates are anti-choice, and which progressive candidates need your support.
- Voting Guide (in Google docs, with sortable columns)
- Instructions for using the Voting Guide – take a quick tour before using the guide.
- ARCC’s list of current anti-choice Members of Parliament and those with unknown or indeterminate stance.
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Send a Letter to Your Candidates
Use our Letter Tool to find your riding, your candidates, and how to contact them. You can send our prepared letter, write your own, message them on social media, or phone them.
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Questions for Candidates
Please ask any of our Questions for Candidates in any venue possible – such as all-candidate meetings, or when candidates knock on your door.
You can also visit, phone, or email the candidates, or post questions on their social media pages. To find your candidates’ contact info, see our Letter Tool.
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Solidarity Statement of Support
Solidarity Statement of Support for Abortion Rights and Reproductive Justice
The statement was sent to all party leaders on April 25.
View statement with list of signatories
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Sign Our Petition
Please sign our online petition at Change.org: Uphold Abortion Rights!
We’ll be publicizing petition results during the campaign, and asking elected candidates to honour the demands. Whichever party wins the election will receive the final petition.
UPDATE: The petition was submitted on May 9. Read our update. Thank you for your support!
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Download our Social Media Kit
Choose elements from our Social Media Kit to share across your own social media accounts, such as Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, and LinkedIn – as well as emails.
Short of time? Just share a few of ARCC‘s posts from one or more of our social media accounts:
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Free Stickers, Buttons, Posters, and Cards
[Note: All are out of stock except Public Cards #13.]
ARCC will cover the cost of the following stickers, pins, posters, and cards, plus postage. To order, please email info@arcc-cdac.ca with the item number, quantity of each desired, and your mailing address.
For many of these items you may also download a free digital copy to quickly print yourself.
- Sticker #1: I’m voting for abortion rights – PNG
- Sticker #2: Vote for Reproducive Justice – PNG
- Sticker #3: Vote like your rights depend on it – PNG
- Sticker #4: Vote like your rights depend on it (banner style) – PNG
- Button #1: I’m voting for abortion rights – PNG
- Button #2: Vote like your rights depend on it – PNG
- Poster #1: Take action for abortion rights (PDF / PNG)
- Poster #2: Abortion is healthcare (PDF / PNG)
- Poster #3: Vote for reproductive freedom (PDF / PNG)
- Poster #4: Election toolkit (PDF / PNG)
- Election card with info about the possible threats to abortion rights and access posed by anti-choice candidates, with a link to our toolkit. (Bilingual, 5″ x 7″)
- Brochure: How your donations support our work
- Public cards with basic abortion info aimed at the general public. Two versions, 6″ by 9″: Maximum order 25.
Note: We reserve the right to limit quantities, or to refuse shipment if we are unable to verify that you are pro-choice.
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Election-related Press Releases, Newsletters, and Articles
Stay informed! Here are links to election-related blogs, press releases, newsletters, written by ARCC members:
- Your role in the fight for reproductive justice by Carolyn Kavanagh (Apr 19, 2025)
- How Trump’s presidency & the loss of abortion rights in the US impacts Canada, by Carolyn Kavanagh (April 2, 2025)
- A Poilievre government could undermine reproductive justice and Indigenous rights, by Seren Friskie (March 26, 2025)
- How will Canada lead on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Era of Trump? by Jacqueline Potvin (March 21, 2025)
- Abortion is inaccessible for many of Canada’s Indigenous communities by Seren Friskie (Dec 26, 2024)
- Press release: Reproductive Rights Should Be an Election Issue (April 21, 2025)
- ARCC Spark: April election issue of our newsletter to members (April 21, 2025)
Our Election Toolkit is generously supported by Unifor.
