Public Safety committee  Yes, thanks very much. I just wanted to add—

Public Safety committee  —that Bill C-2 is essential to try to moderate the terrible tragedies that are taking place in Canada with regard to the drug injection site in Vancouver. We have done a brief where all this and the police statement are referenced for you to read, and all the studies backing up

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I very much appreciate being invited to come here to speak. REAL Women of Canada was an intervenor in the Supreme Court of Canada case on the drug injection site in Vancouver. Our organization was the only one of 15 intervenors that did not hav

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, I'd hardly say that there was balance today. You get all these people who get funded by the program, and REAL Women are left without.

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, obviously we do not think it should be reinstated. It's a discriminatory, biased organization, and it should be scrapped. It was rightfully scrapped, because it's not open to all women and to all people. And it is really a running sore in the face of democracy to all

Status of Women committee  Well, number one, not all women are victims. Some women are, whether they're aboriginal women, or whatever. There are exceptions. But the vast majority of women are not victims of the so-called patriarchal society. Look at the universities. There are more women there than there

Status of Women committee  First of all, my definition is what the dictionary says: equality for women socially, economically, and politically. That is understood, and I think most women in Canada would agree with it. But you have a different interpretation from the special interest groups of feminists. F

Status of Women committee  I'd like to make a comment with regard to the question of equality under the UN treaties. It's how you define it. Obviously there are different definitions. And as I say, the CEDAW document requires an interpretation. That may be their interpretation, but every time the court cha

Status of Women committee  I would like to say that in fact all of the committees were involved in that meeting in Deep Cove.

Status of Women committee  Okay, sure. I just want to make it clear that not only some people believe in equality. All women do.

Status of Women committee  REAL Women is an NGO with consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the UN. As such, we've attended over 35 UN meetings and we happen to know a great deal about CEDAW. What happened is at Deep Cove, New York, in December 1996, it was decided by a group of femin

Status of Women committee  I think a matter should be clarified here. All Canadian women want equality. There are different avenues and different ways to achieve it. But what we have here are the radical feminists deciding what equality is, using the taxpayers' money, and we all have to follow their defini

Status of Women committee  I think the point should be made that in nearly all the cases she has cited, the majority of women did not approve of the decisions. REAL Women intervened in many of those cases, and we represent mainstream Canadian women. Because they got funding, they were able to argue their o

Status of Women committee  We have been in roughly 15 cases, about 13 of them before the Supreme Court of Canada, all paid by our membership, not the government.

Status of Women committee  I think I should make it clear that most women are perfectly competent of speaking out and it's such an insult to say that women are stupid and we have to have government payouts to succeed. REAL Women has been in existence for 25 years, paying all of our money ourselves. We ha