Mr. Speaker, this week women from across Canada were in Ottawa at an NDP economic summit, determined to get women's economic concerns onto this government's budget agenda.
After 20 years of Conservative and Liberal pork-barrelling and corporate handouts, they came here enraged that organizations advocating and providing vital services for women are struggling to survive while this government continues to cater to its corporate pals.
They were here to overcome ten years of Liberal budgetary neglect, broken child care promises, social program cuts, and the bypassing of achievable improvements to housing and job equality for a corporate wish list of tax cuts and debt reduction, dismayed that this government refuses to go all out to fix Canada's equality deficit as outlined by the UN.
It used to be that we had to hold bake sales to meet our needs. Now we find out that we should have been running communications companies.
When will this government stop marginalizing women's economic concerns and make them budget priorities?