NDP PEI BIPOC Committee
The mandate of the NDP PEI BIPOC committee is to ensure that the voices of the Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) community of Prince Edward Island are always considered, recognized and acknowledged. Historically Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour disproportionately face more barriers due to the constructs that have been established without BIPOC folks in mind. Political parties and organizations are not exempt to the mistreatment and misappropriation of BIPOC voices.
The NDP PEI BIPOC committee ensures that Black, Indigenous and People of Colour have their voices heard on NDP policy that directly affect the Island’s BIPOC communities. This committee will work with the NDP PEI executive and council to support racialized Island citizens from a BIPOC perspective. The role of this committee should be to support, voice opinions and give advice to where the NDP PEI are lacking and to close the gaps and barriers that the Island’s radicalized population face.
The NDP PEI prioritizes Indigenous voices, and acknowledge that the NDP PEI is located on the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi’kmaq.
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