Evidence of meeting #60 for Foreign Affairs and International Development in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was women.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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NDP
Hélène Laverdière NDP Laurier—Sainte-Marie, QC
Thank you very much.
Ms. Kerby or others, would you like to comment as well? Or Mr. Wilkinson?
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Feed The Children
I would just add that I would concur with what my colleague has said.
I think it is about empowerment, and it's about really creating that enabling space for young girls to have ownership over their own lives in a community that is receptive to that.
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Past International President, Rotary International
All I would add is that we're trying very hard with our university programs, our peace and development scholarships, to provide women in that role so that they are in key positions in government and internationally to carry out that work. I've identified some of them in my remarks to you.
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Conservative
May 12th, 2015 / 12:10 p.m.
Conservative
David Anderson Conservative Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK
Mr. Chair, if you want to use my time to discuss your future activity, that's fine with me.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Dean Allison
Okay. That's what we'll do then.
We want to thank you all for being here. Once again, all the organizations here do outstanding work—Rotary, Kiwanis, and Feed The Children. I know Mr. Bélanger mentioned this. Thank you. Keep up the great work.
We're going to keep going here, if the witnesses could step back from the table.
The question I want to pose to the members is in regard to the suggested drafting instructions to work forward on this report. You've seen those. If we're okay with them, that's really all we need to do. It's just to give them the go-ahead to move forward on those reports.
Do I have consensus to do that?
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Some hon. members
Yes.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Dean Allison
Okay. So we didn't need to come back anyway. We took care of all that.
Is there any other business?
Thank you.
With that, the meeting is adjourned.