Please allow me to add two things to this. First, the word "equality" was removed from Status of Women Canada's mission statement, as if equality pertains to an ideological choice. Rather, we think that it's a fundamental Canadian value.
Second, we can no longer do research. You know as well as we do, when we submit funding applications, we are asked for statistics. As our colleague said, we do not have funding from Status of Women Canada for our particular situation. It is also more difficult these days to get funding to do research in our communities. So it is becoming more difficult to support our requests with statistics.