Canadian Heritage committee  To cut such a program would be a huge blow to substantive equality, because substantive equality is the difference between formal equality, that is, treating everybody the same, which is the standard distinction, and.... I grew up with that, thinking that's what equality means, b

Canadian Heritage committee  Not that I'm aware of, but I'm not a member of the staff; I'm just a volunteer.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for your time.

Canadian Heritage committee  It depends on what the objective is. If it's for conducting a consultation on the relation...for example, you're right, you're not looking at litigation fees. A case before a human rights tribunal is generally recognized to be a lot cheaper than one that might require a long list

Canadian Heritage committee  I know for many of the interventions, particularly those before the Supreme Court of Canada, the funding provided by the court challenges program typically only covers what are called disbursement fees. Those are the fees to acquire the materials, to redistribute or circulate the

Canadian Heritage committee  I can only imagine that for larger firms that are in the business of profit, it would be prohibitive. I wouldn't be able to fathom how much it would cost.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think that's a really important question, because it gets to the heart of what I think this program is about in many ways, but also what our courts and legislatures have been grappling with for a really long time, the extent to which it has a commitment to equality. I recogni

Canadian Heritage committee  I'd be interested in seeing what the terms of that advisory committee would be. I'd be speculating to say this is the mandate of that committee.

Canadian Heritage committee  As I said, an advisory committee is removed from any decision. It has no budget and no decision-making authority with respect to the distribution of funds or the selection of cases. It is the only one that has representational capacity.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  NAWL does now, and I think I'd feel most comfortable--only because this is what I've agreed to do--to speak for NAWL. First of all, the only body, as I understand it, of the court challenges program that has representatives is the advisory committee, unless I'm wrong. But I thi

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  There is just one other, and that is the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, and I believe the justice committee has already had a presentation from a representative of that organization.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, though NAWL is not unlike LEAF in the business of court case interventions for the most part. In fact, as I explain to my students who are interested in kind of a quick answer to the question, “What are the national women's legal organizations?”, I think of the two organizat

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it has, for consultations--three consultations—