Thank you.
I just want to say that the reason I got involved with DAWN Canada's board is because I have a Pentecostal friend who is quadriplegic, who begged me from a sickbed to please go. When I suggested to her that she might consider the possibility of running for the board, she indicated to me that she was too sick to travel safely because of all of the restrictions and barriers. I know that even my own safety is jeopardized by those restrictions and barriers.
I am a deeply Christian woman. I'm here on my 28th wedding anniversary, with my mother-in-law as my caregiver to assist me, because our family deeply believes very passionately that we must love all people and that it's not our place, but God's place, to make judgments. I'm here also to uphold the rights of a war bride who is currently fighting a hospital system that is trying to send her husband to an early demise. They feel he's going to die anyway, so if it's two weeks sooner, what's the point.
So these are the things.... And I also have served in this government's military. Currently, even though I'm on disability, I pay taxes, and I am the main income earner of my family. So I too am a self-reliant woman and a Christian one.
I would just like to say that you don't represent all the views of mainstream women necessarily.
Thank you.