Your last reference to how women spend money compared with men in general makes you think that at the very least we should reverse the wage gap that exists now between men and women so that more of the money women earn would go into the community.
I know this is the international development committee, the foreign affairs committee, and we're very much focused on international initiatives in the international arena around democracy building, but I really want to return to the point you made about needing to ensure that people have the tools to allow them to actually participate in the process of protecting and advancing their own rights, and so on. I don't want to put words in your mouth at all, but I want to revisit the court challenges program cancellation.
It seems pretty obvious this is a step back, if we understand the point you were making: people have to be empowered with the legal capacity, the legal resources, to advance their own rights.
I'm wondering if you can comment further on that, both in terms of the implications for women's struggle for gender equality within the Canadian context and also in terms of our reputation in the big wide world, as we advocate gender equality and justice abroad while actually eroding the access to meaningful legal processes by those who are struggling for equality and justice at home.