I started that in my presentation. The effect of this will be that if they want to silence people, to drive people underground, to make sure we are not just stalled on equality issues and access to job issues but move backwards, that's exactly what these cuts are going to do.
We take a look at who's going to be the most affected. It's going to be people who want to get jobs, young workers, aboriginal workers, workers with disabilities, immigrants, workers of colour, a whole range of people who have been excluded from the workplace, from our perspective.
When you're excluded from the workplace, you're excluded from a piece of society as well. What's the first thing somebody says to you after you introduce yourself? “Hello, my name is”, and the next question is, “What do you do?” That's what's happening.
The programs that have been cut are programs hitting a broad range of people. The fact that the Status of Women has said their mandate is no longer equality is absolutely shameful to anybody who knows what the Status of Women is in this country. We may say women are equal, but the reality is that in our workplaces and our communities we're not treated that way at all. We're not treated that way in the House of Commons and we're not there in the House of Commons.
It's all those sorts of things. What's happening is people are being silenced, and it's about driving people underground and backwards.