TO: Industry Canada

Corporations Directorate

1. (1) The undersigneds hereby apply to the Minister of Industry for the grant of a charter by Letters Patent under the provisions of Part II of the Canada Corporations Act, R.S.C. 1970, c. C-32 constituting the undersigned and such other persons as hereinafter become members of the Corporation thereby created, a body corporate and politic without share capital under the name of the Canadian Equal Parenting Council - Conseil canadien pour le rôle parental égal (the "Corporation").

(2) The undersigned have satisfied themselves and are assured that the proposed name under which incorporation is sought is not the same or similar to the name under which any other company, society, association or firm in existence is carrying on business in Canada or is incorporated under the laws of Canada or any province thereof or so nearly resembles the same as to be calculated to deceive and that it is not a name which is otherwise on public grounds objectionable.

2. (1) The applicants are individuals of the full age of eighteen years with power under law to contract. The place of residence and the calling of each of the applicants are as follows: 

Name	Address	Calling
1. Daniel Carroll	26 Tamara Way, Kanata, ON K2M 2K6	Marketing Executive
2. Gene C. Colman	25 Bowring Walk,  Toronto, ON M3H 5Z8	Lawyer
3. Todd Eckert	855 Gillett Street, Prince George, B.C. V2M 2V1	Entrepreneur
4. Robert McGuire	2034 Front Road.North, Amherstburg, ON N9V 3R3	Co-Executive Director
5. John C. Menear	177 Canice Street,  Orillia, ON L3V 4H8	Lawyer
6. Steve Osborne	795 Route 860, French Village, N.B. E5N 8C4	Advocate
7. David Shackleton	4994 Woodkilton Road,  Woodlawn, ON K0A 3M0	Publisher

(2) The above named people will be the first directors of the Corporation.

3. The objects of the Corporation are:

1. to promote the principle that children of separation and divorce have a right to a significant relationship with both biological parents, psychological parents and all of their biological and psychological grandparents;

2. to promote the principle that children of separation and divorce have a right to a process that minimizes and diffuses parental conflict;

3. to promote the principle that equal parenting arrangements following separation should be the norm;

4. to promote the principle that men and women should be encouraged and supported to exercise and share the rights and responsibilities that have been historically assigned exclusively to men or to women;

5. to promote the principle that family violence polices should focus on preventing harm to mothers, fathers and children;

6. to facilitate and support the efforts of autonomous groups in Canada who share the goals of the Corporation;

7. to act as a national voice for pro-family, pro-children and pro-equality elements in Canada;

8. to seek intervenor status in cases before the appellate courts where this is appropriate in advancing and moving forward the cause of social justice in terms of family law, gender equity and issues related to constitutional law and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms;

9. to encourage research and publication in relation to the issues relating to the challenges faced by non-custodial parents, men and grandparents in the context of matrimonial breakdown and in other areas of gender equity;

10. to undertake equality rights and responsibilities litigation using all appropriate legal avenues including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms;

11. to publicly advocate for law reform in areas relevant to family law and gender equity;

12. to provide information and services to organizations and citizens about the effect of matrimonial breakdown on parenting and the effect of post divorce dynamics on children;

13. to support, facilitate and provide a voice for individuals, groups and associations across Canada who have similar concerns, aims and objectives;

14. to raise funds in the private and public sector and to receive and maintain funds and to apply from time to time all or any part thereof and, or to pay income therefrom for the above purposes;

15. to use, apply, give, devote, accumulate or distribute from time to time any part of the fund or funds of the Corporation and/or the income therefrom for the above purposes by such means as may from time to time seem expedient to its directors.

16. to solicit, accept, receive, acquire by purchase, lease agreement, grant, donation, legacy, gift, bequeath or otherwise, any kind of real or personal property, and to enter into and carry out agreements, undertakings and conditions in connection therewith;

17. to acquire technology and/or intellectual property rights, licenses, permits, concessions and other rights necessary or desirable;

18. to acquire by purchase, lease, devise, gift or otherwise, any kind of real or personal property, and to hold such real property or interest therein as is determined by the directors of the Corporation to be reasonably necessary for the actual use or occupation of the Corporation, or for the carrying on of its undertaking, and to sell, dispose of and convey the same or any part thereof.

4. The operations of the Corporation may be carried on throughout Canada and elsewhere.

5. The place within Canada where the head office of the Corporation is to be situated is the City of Toronto in the Province of Ontario.

6. In accordance with Section 65 of the Canada Corporations Act, it is provided that, when authorized by by-law, duly passed by the directors and sanctioned by at least two-thirds of the votes cast at a special general meeting of the members duly called for considering the by-law, the directors of the corporation may from time to time

(a) borrow money upon the credit of the corporation;

(b) limit or increase the amount to be borrowed;

(c) issue or cause to be issued bonds, debentures or other securities of the corporation and pledge or sell the same for such sums, upon such terms, covenants and conditions and at such prices as may be deemed expedient;

(d) secure any bond, debentures or other securities, or any other present or future borrowing or liability of the company, by mortgage, hypothec, charge or pledge of all or any currently owned or subsequently acquired real and personal, movable and immovable, property of the corporation, and the undertaking and rights of the corporation.

Any such by-law may provide for the delegation of such powers by the directors to such officers or directors of the corporation to such extent and in such manner as may be set out in the by-law.

7. The by laws of the Corporation shall be those filed with the application for letters patent until repealed, amended, altered or added to, and shall not be enforced or acted upon until the approval of the Minister has been obtained.

8. The Corporation is to carry on its operations without pecuniary gain to its members, save and except for any members who are gainfully employed by the Corporation, and any profits or other accretions to the Corporation are to be used in promoting its objects.

Executed in counterpart by the undersigneds

Daniel Carroll

Gene C. Colman

Todd Eckert

Robert McGuire

John C. Menear

Steve Osborne

David Shackleton