{"id":64029,"date":"2020-02-27T16:23:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T21:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=64029"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:30:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:30:35","slug":"canadian-senate-recognizes-landon-pearson-and-carleton-university","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/canadian-senate-recognizes-landon-pearson-and-carleton-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Senate Recognizes Landon Pearson and Carleton University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Canadian Senate Recognizes Landon Pearson and Carleton University\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/path>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Canadian Sen. Rosemary Moodie recognized Carleton University in a Senate session following a meeting with Landon Pearson<\/a> at Carleton\u2019s Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood & Children\u2019s Rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first Senate session of the 43rd Parliament on Feb. 20, 2020, Moodie\u2014an independent senator representing Ontario\u2014announced she plans to pursue creating an office with a commissioner for children and youth within the government that will fulfill Canada\u2019s responsibility as a leader for human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCanada has been steadily dropping in global rankings with respect to the well-being of our children. One in three do not enjoy a safe and healthy childhood and half of the First Nations children live (on) reserves in poverty. Sen. Pearson and I spoke for the need of an independent voice for the rights of children and youth,\u201d Moodie said in a speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSomeone who would uphold the rights of children according to the UN Convention for the Rights of the Child. Someone who would support Indigenous communities in taking care of their children and youth according to their culture and spiritual values and Indigenous law. Someone who would hold the federal government accountable to its responsibilities, according to the convention ratified here in 1991.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Landon Pearson and Sen. Rosemary Moodie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In her speech to the Senate, Moodie reminded her fellow senators about the 11 years that Pearson worked on behalf of children and youth across Canada and that she had been nicknamed the<\/em> Children\u2019s Senator<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs I work toward making this office a reality, in line with Sen. Pearson\u2019s legacy, I hope I can count on your support and wisdom together as we seek to make Canada the best place in the world for a child to grow,\u201d said Moodie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFollowing her retirement in 2005, Sen. Pearson launched a resource centre (at) Carleton University to promote the rights of children and youth. I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Sen. Pearson at Carleton University. Her passion remains strong as ever and her insight as invaluable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carleton University President Benoit-Antoine Bacon said he\u2019s proud of the university\u2019s partnership with Sen. Pearson in promoting children\u2019s rights and giving youth a stronger voice in matters that directly impact them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCarleton\u2019s Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children\u2019s Rights is a unique and important entity that truly embodies our core value of building a better future together,\u201d said Bacon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthropology Prof. Virginia Caputo<\/a> is director of the Landon Pearson Centre and is pleased that Moodie is looking to act on Pearson\u2019s push for a commissioner for Canada\u2019s children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSen. Moodie is a practicing neonatologist at the Hospital for Sick Children and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto. It is hardly surprising then that she has a keen interest in children and young people’s lives,\u201d said Caputo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe came to the centre to speak with us because she is considering the idea to take up Landon’s work to have a responsibility centre for children at the federal level. She discussed this possibility in the statement she made in Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Landon will celebrate her 90th birthday this year and Moodie’s speech in the Senate chamber acknowledged her legacy through 60 years of children’s rights advocacy. A book collection edited by Caputo, titled The Children’s Senator: Landon Pearson and a Lifetime of Advocacy, <\/em>is expected to be released later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canadian Sen. Rosemary Moodie recognized Carleton University in a Senate session following a meeting with Landon Pearson at Carleton\u2019s Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood & Children\u2019s Rights. In the first Senate session of the 43rd Parliament on Feb. 20, 2020, Moodie\u2014an independent senator representing Ontario\u2014announced she plans to pursue creating an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":64033,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[28],"cu_story_tag":[],"class_list":["post-64029","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-community-partnerships"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/64029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/64029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98114,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/64029\/revisions\/98114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=64029"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=64029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}