WHEREAS a study from the University of Ottawa completed in 2014, concludes that 40 of pregnancies in Canada are either unplanned, which is mis-timed, or unwanted, compared to significantly lower rates in European countries for example, France has 10.3 and Finland with a low of 4.7 as cited by Ralph Ulrich, Population Reference Bureau, partially attributed to publicly funded birth control; AND WHEREAS unwanted pregnancies primarily effect low income and marginalized women, citing The Option for Sexual Health publication of Universal Access to Publicly Funded Birth Control in British Columbia, it is known that every dollar spent on publicly funded birth control, results in an eleven dollar savings to the social system in the long term: Therefore be it resolved that the UBCM request the Government of British Columbia to investigate a model of publicly funded birth control similar to those offered in European countries.
No record of a provincial response.