As an OCI member, you gain access to exclusive research and content, networking opportunities, policy discussions, and the ability to shape our community’s direction.

One of the key benefits of OCI is the ability to connect with a community of policy change makers to share ideas, debate policy, and explore new concepts.

Our website, members-only forum and events are designed to encourage healthy, productive exchanges.

• Join a committee, see the committee options below
• Forum: Engage with other members in our online chat forum
• Calendar: Attend an event or meeting (at a later date)
• Internal Surveys: Complete a policy survey to share your thoughts on key policy positions (at a later date)
• Recruiting page by NationBuilder (at a later date)
• Member /supporter portal by NationBuilder (at a later date)
• Leadership board by NationBuilder (at a later date)

If you have a particular or pressing interest in one/some of these options contact us to let us know so we’ll try to focus more energy on developing some over the others. (link to contact us page, to provide feedback)

This is your opportunity to lead! Join or lead a provincial advisory committee, either as staff or a board member.

Standard Board Committees:

• Governance Committee – Typical executive committee functions are included under this committee. Recruits new members, conducts orientations, creates meeting materials, and evaluates board performance
• Internal Affairs Committee – Manages internal operations related to finance, personnel etc.
• External Affairs Committee – Oversees external functions, including fundraising, communications, media relations, public relations, and marketing.

Policy Advisory Committees:

• Subcommittees include representation across political spectrums such as centre-left, centre-right, economically centre-left, and culturally centre-right.

Operational Advisory Committees:

• Focus areas include research (with specialized subcommittees), dissemination (media and government subcommittees), social media (tech platforms subcommittees), and events.

Regional Advisory Committees:

• Each Local Chapter has three potential policy advocacy subcommittees and one community advocacy subcommittee.

Contact us via our website contact form. We aim to respond within 48 hours.

We will be hosting several policy discussion roundtable meetings throughout the year, along with our Annual General Meeting.

• Experts: We are in the process of assembling a list of experts and will publish it in the near future. Stay tuned for updates!

We utilize three main types of research approaches to inform our work:

• • Deductive: Begins with a theory and tests specific hypotheses.
  • Inductive: Starts with observations to generate new theories.
  • Abductive: Combines elements of both deductive and inductive methods.

We only contract research at the highest post grad academic standards.

While these approaches may be familiar to professional researchers, our goal is to ensure that Canadians who join us, particularly voters interested in shaping policy, understand the methods behind our research.

If you have any questions or would like more information, feel free to reach out—we’d be happy to elaborate!

• Educate Voters: We call on supporters and the public to contact elected officials, political parties, and candidates to express their views on specific laws, policies, or decisions.
• Make Policy Statements: We present our research to elected officials, parliamentary committees, and the public—both verbally and in writing—actively participating in the policy development process.
• Provide Forums & Convene Open Discussions: We invite candidates and political representatives to engage in public forums or written discussions to explore key public policy issues.
• Communicate on Social Media: We share our research and or abstracts on public policy across social media and encourage others to join the conversation.
• Drive Public Awareness Campaigns: We conduct outreach campaigns aimed at informing and persuading the public on important policy matters.
• Conduct & Share Important Policy Research: We investigate public policy issues, distribute our findings, and discuss them with the media and other stakeholders.
• Disseminate Opinions: We express informed opinions when engaging in public policy discussions and development.
• Advocate: We advocate for changes, opposition, or support of laws, policies, or decisions as necessary.

We are soon developing local chapters where members can join with and meet other members, virtually and in person and to discuss better public policy research ideas for us to undertake.