Human Resources committee  I have two children. One is three and one is five, and they are not in public school.

Human Resources committee  I think you've used the perfect word. I think that what we're on about is that word, which is “choice”, but we expect, and the government has an obligation to ensure, that women have real choices. When women are offered twelve hundred bucks over the course of a year in terms of a

Human Resources committee  It's not an easy thing to comment on, but I will try. I mentioned in my presentation this process called the universal periodic review of Canada, which happened at the United Nations. But before the United Nations review of Canada, there was a mobilization of human rights and ot

Human Resources committee  I sit on the steering committee of CFAIA, but I actually am the executive director of a housing organization in Ontario and I run a national women's housing network, so I can speak directly to the issue of how the federal government is faring with respect to housing. It is true

Human Resources committee  I'm not a child care person. I work for a broader feminist organization. One of the things we have seen that are somewhat problematic in those federal-provincial agreements on child care has been that they have not always extended those child care benefits to women in receipt of

Human Resources committee  Thank you. The Feminist Alliance for International Action very much appreciates this opportunity to appear before this committee and to make this submission. For those of you who don't know, FAFIA is a coalition of over 75 Canadian women's equality-seeking and related organizat

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, I'd like to correct, or at least clarify, the record, based on what the last honourable speaker said. She mentioned FAFIA's funding, I think in the amount of $600,000 or $650,000, between certain years. I want to clarify that a large portion of the money facilitated

Status of Women committee  For FAFIA, we're a membership organization. We have local organizations across the country. The cuts to Status of Women Canada and the closure of those regional offices, combined with the changes in what will and will not be funded, are having a tremendous effect on our members.

Status of Women committee  Not to repeat what my colleagues said, but by removing the three that you mentioned--equality, political, and legal--basically it straps women, it makes women unable, in our opinion, to make the gains necessary to reach equality. They're saying on the one hand that we've reached

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. My name is Leilani Farha. I am pleased to have this opportunity to speak to this committee on behalf of the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action, of which I am a board member and co-chair of the human rights committee. FAFIA is a pan-Canad