Finance committee  You're quite right, we are not partisan. As a matter of fact, one of the issues your government has addressed is our request made some years ago to consider the age of consent. You have acted on that, and we congratulate you on the action taken. We are quite happy to either cri

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Yes, essentially, but we have not specifically addressed it in depth at the grass roots level. It's under discussion, but the last presentation we made on it was our brief to the Romanow commission dealing with the whole health care program in Canada. And yes, we were looking for

Finance committee  In principle, yes.

Finance committee  Yes, we are--private, for-profit, yes.

Finance committee  Oh, okay. Perhaps the original writer of this brief used an unfortunate choice of words. We have always wanted a single-pay system with the guarantee that it's the taxpayers' money that is being used to fund the system. Every bit of work that becomes privatized becomes an unfai

Finance committee  No, we have supported the Canada Health Act.

Finance committee  Provided they're not coming out of the user's immediate wallet. This is an unfair burden.

Finance committee  Yes, yes, and yes. The simple answer is that there was a program developed and a series of agreements presented, at least in the draft form. And the National Council of Women of Canada members were very pleased to think that at long last there would be the facilitating legislatio

Finance committee  Yes, we read this, but the results have not shown up. What we do also hear the federal government saying repeatedly is that they have this child benefit of $100, which, as our colleagues have noted, is taxable and it is not administered fairly then. It's not an equal gift to al

Finance committee  We read about it, but we don't see the results.

Finance committee  Our members at National Council have criticized the present child benefit for just the reasons you've spoken about--because it is unfair in its application and it can be claimed as a benefit by a spouse who is doing full-time child care in the home and is not obliged to be workin

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The National Council of Women of Canada thanks the committee for the opportunity to present some observations about our brief. We've been making annual briefs to this committee for years, so I will refer to the fact that some issues have recurred year a

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. For an organization like the National Council of Women, the cutbacks, quite simply.... If the applications are being governed by the guidelines that we have seen, it means we will not have funds, and not be able to access funds, to do research on issu

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I did raise the issue of the funding to be provided to for-profit groups, as well as for non-profit groups. We see it as an unfair competition. For-profit groups will be able to figure in recovering the costs that they have to put into their presentation, when they go