You referred earlier to the Charter of Rights. When your Government abolished the Court Challenges Program, do you not think that, in a way, we were creating two categories of citizens: those who can pay a lawyer to defend their rights and those who cannot afford to pay? Hiring a lawyer is very expensive, and it can be very difficult and costly to take a case all the way to the Supreme Court.
In a way, the most vulnerable among us, the people that can't afford to go to the Supreme Court to defend their rights, as well as certain underfunded women's groups, will no longer be able to advocate on behalf of women. Not only have you abolished the program, but you have cut $5 million from Status of Women Canada's budget. What is more, your Government is not interested in passing legislation on equity.
Do you not think that, taken together, these developments are a real disaster for women?