Building a Stronger Future for Women's Health in Canada
The Framework for Women’s Health is enabling legislation that will ensure development of a women’s health strategy, provide an anchor for aligned advocacy priorities, enable provincial health delivery, and establish a federal commitment to drive budget and policy decisions that support women. Bill S-243 will advance women’s health, strengthen research, and reinforce transformation of primary care and preventative health. A women’s health strategy will support innovation, integrate private and public health systems, and enable entrepreneurship for health-focused women led businesses.
Meet the Senator Driving the Framework Forward
“My experience with cancer would be all too familiar to many women: minimized symptoms and delayed diagnoses coming after too little prevention. This bill is the product of my lived experience: as a woman, as an entrepreneur, as a mother and as an immigrant who has always believed that women’s health can be a means to equality and prosperity for the entire country.”
- Senator Danièle Henkel
Watch Senator Henkel's pledge to women's health here.
Why this Matters
THE TIME IS NOW!
Let Your Senator Know This Matters
Click here to find your provincial Senators.
Bill S-243 has been presented to the Senate for first reading. The second reading is on Feb 3, 2026. Send your letter of support to Senators in your province by Jan 20 to give them time to review ahead of the second reading. Your lived experiences, in your home province — this is the story they want to understand.
Let Your MP Know This Matters
Click here to find your provincial Member of Parliament.
Your voice can help strengthen women’s health in Canada — tell your MP why this issue is important to you, your business or your organization.
Make it personal.
Your story, your way, to your elected official.
TIPS and IDEAS:
- Sample letter templates available for download below — email or mailed letters are both acceptable.
- Be sure to include your full address including postal code (and phone number).
- If you have a senior position you can write a letter on behalf of your organization, and ask to meet with them — if it works you can include how many members you have in how many provinces.
- Research your MP or Senator to find genuine points of intersection to include in the letter (where they reside, business experience, family, etc). It has to be authentic!
- Tell your family, friends and colleagues why this matters to you and ask them to write a letter too.
Sample outline for your letter to Senators and Members of Parliament — a single page is best
Top address (Senators/MPs). Check Google for proper salutation (ie. Hon.). Use last names only.
- RE: Please Support Bill S-243 — A National Framework for Women’s Health
Body of Letter
- Opening: Who you are, where you live, and group you represent - patient, caregiver, health professional, researcher, employer, community leader, etc. 1-2 sentences)
- Purpose of Your Letter: Clearly state your support for Bill S-243
- Why This Matters to You: (Personal or Professional Lens) Share one short lived experience or professional insight. Focus on access gaps, delays, bias, or inconsistency in care. Avoid detail/data — this can be provided in additional information/references at the bottom.
- Community/Provincial Impact: Make the issue local — about people, challenges, and opportunities in their constituency.
- Why Bill S-243 — a law for women’s health — is the Right Step: Creates coordination — not duplication and accountability. Reinforces stakeholder engagement and evidence based decision making. Aligns provinces, territories, and federal leadership. Keep it high-level and positive.
Closing & Appreciation.
- Ask the Senator to support Bill S-243 at the 2nd reading on Feb 3: Champion women’s health publicly and in caucus.
- Thank you: Thank them for their service, offer to engage further.
- Signature
- Full name, all contact info (full mailing address), and organization if applicable
Advocate for Women and Women's Health
Together we are creating a grassroots movement for women and women’s health. Awareness creates momentum. The more people who understand the importance of this work, the stronger our message to decision makers is that we won’t let women be left behind any longer.
Connect Your Organization
Become an official community partner and an acknowledged stakeholder to inform Bill S-243 and development of the Women's Health Framework.
Community Partners
Follow on Social
Follow The Women’s Health Framework on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads where you can engage with and share posts to help spread the word across your communities. Follow Senator Daniele Henkel and supporting organizations on LinkedIn and other channels.
You can be an Official Community or Business Partner for Women's Health
50,000 charities and non-profit organizations have a vested interest in women’s health, research, innovation, and women led entrepreneurship. Our collective voice can help secure a National Women’s Health Framework that delivers lasting change.
Community partners, with aligned advocacy priorities, inform briefings to government, provide witness to Government Committees, attend Days on the Hill engagement activities happening on Feb 25 & 26, and are recommended to the government of Canada as official stakeholders for women's health.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
Join a (virtual) Partner Meeting to learn more:
INDUSTRY PARTNER
Information Session: Weds, Jan 13, Official Partners* 12:00 pm. General Private Sector Information 1:00 pm (MST)
COMMUNITY PARTNER
Information Session: Fri, Jan 20, 2026 Official Partners* 12:00 pm. General Information Session 1:00 pm (MST)
*Official Partners are businesses and organizations who meet required advocacy priorities and provide core funding to support the campaign.
RSVP: WHFramework@TheWHC.ca
Subject line: RSVP Community (or Industry) Meeting
To learn more about PARTNERSHIPS for WOMEN'S HEALTH, Contact Carmen Wyton at WHFramework@TheWHC.ca
INDUSTRY PARTNERS MAKE IT POSSIBLE
Stand up for women’s health for yourself, family members and friends. Every gift strengthens our ability to advocate, educate and drive meaningful progress in women’s health. Personal donation and honour gifts in the name of someone you love will receive a charitable tax receipt. Organization and business donations are a social responsibility and marketing investment to support women and build Canada. Together we will show the world that Canada cares.