Canadian Polish Congress Canadian Polish Congress The Canadian-Polish Congress (, KPK), is a Canadian not-for-profit organization federally integrated on the 7th of February 1933 in Winnipeg, Manitoba which was previously known as the Federation of Polish Societies in Canada. It was later on reconstituted on the 16 of March 1948 as the Canadian Polish Congress. The change of the organization's name was during a General Meeting held in Toronto, capital of Ontario, during the 2nd to 4 September 1944. Once called the Federation of Polish Societies in Canada, it is the first Polonian umbrella organization created by Polish-Canadians who immigrated to Canada to
Winnipeg Statement gained and much lost by an attempt to rephrase what we have said in Winnipeg. We stand squarely behind our position but we feel it is our duty to insist on a proper interpretation of that position." They added: In 1998, the Canadian bishops voted by secret ballot on a resolution to retract the Winnipeg Statement. It did not pass. Calls for retraction continue, though some see the Canadian bishops' December 1, 1973, document, "Statement on the Formation of Conscience", as evidence that they were trying to distance themselves from the Winnipeg Statement. In 2008, the Canadian bishops issued a