Since 1992, Population Institute Canada (PIC) has advocated population stabilization, including smaller families, by promoting non-coercive, universal, low-cost access to family planning. We believe this is central to achieving poverty alleviation, gender equality, and a more just, sustainable and healthy future for all.

PIC campaigns for recognition and public discussion of the negative impacts – environmental, economic and social – of burgeoning growth in human numbers. Chief among the consequences of overpopulation are:

  • global food, water and energy shortages;
  • natural resource depletion, including fisheries and arable land;
  • deforestation, desertification, soil exhaustion and biodiversity loss;
  • mounting greenhouse gas emissions, climate change and, less obvious;
  • an inevitable rise in political instability and social conflict world-wide.

PIC receives no government or corporate funding, but depends solely on members and private donors for financial support. We operate thanks largely to volunteers. Due to its uncompromising advocacy work on this sensitive subject, PIC does not qualify as a registered Canadian charity.

However, with your help we can, and will, continue to challenge the popular view that growth is a social ideal – that “bigger is better” and “more is best.” We will promote the viewpoint that small families are sustainable, often healthier, happier families, and, as the UN notes, that:

“…family planning could bring more benefits to more people at less cost than any other single technology available to the human race.”

You can help by leaving a bequest to PIC when considering your financial and estate planning. Bequests help ensure that PIC continues its educational, consciousness-raising work on the perils of global overpopulation, as it campaigns to ensure a sustainable balance between humans and the planet.

You may decide to seek professional advice to ensure that your wishes are carried out smoothly, and to avoid associated legal and financial difficulties. Otherwise, the following directives, approved by an Ontario lawyer, are suggested instructions to incorporate in your Will when leaving a bequest to PIC:

Legacy/Bequest

I direct my Estate Trustee to pay or transfer to Population Institute of Canada (PIC), a not-for-profit Corporation dedicated to goals and objectives and operating in a manner and methodology with which I am in complete agreement, the sum of ____________, and I declare that the receipt of the treasurer or other proper officer for the time being of that organization shall be sufficient discharge to my Estate Trustee.

PIC’s address is:

P.O. Box 59045
Ottawa
Ontario
K1G 5T7
Canada

Share in Residue

I direct my Trustee to divide the residue of my estate into (for example, one hundred) equal shares and to pay and transfer __________________ of those shares to Population Institute Canada (PIC), a not-for-profit Corporation dedicated to goals and objectives and operating in a manner and methodology with which I am in complete agreement, and I declare that the receipt of the treasurer or other proper officer for the time being of that organization shall be sufficient discharge to my Estate Trustee.

PIC’s address is:

P.O. Box 59045
Ottawa
Ontario
K1G 5T7
Canada

If you are considering a bequest and would like to discuss it with us, or an Ontario lawyer who has assisted in the above, please contact us via email or phone (1-613-833-3668) and ask for: Clifford Garrard, Vice President/Executive Director, Population Institute Canada.

Thank you in anticipation of your support, and for standing in solidarity with us as we strive to advance our global population and sustainability-related objectives – for humankind and the planet.