Status of Women committee  Ontario is one of the few provinces in which the legal aid system has a test case litigation fund, and it's actually increased the pressure on that fund unbearably, because suddenly they have applicants who formerly might have gone to the court challenges program.

Status of Women committee  I would like to answer, Madam Chair. That is a very good question. The National Association of Women and Law lost its funding for promoting women's equality. The association is not eligible to receive new funding from Status of Women, because the criterion was eliminated. The fun

Status of Women committee  I just wanted to make the point that in addition to the CEDAW committee, the UN committees reviewing the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as well as the UN committee reviewing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, have also comme

Status of Women committee  If you permit me to, I'll take 30 seconds just to conclude.

Status of Women committee  What have women lost with the repeal of the court challenges program? Women have lost a key equality rights accountability mechanism that's fundamentally necessary within our parliamentary democracy. The need for the court challenges program may well have been unclear to Minister

Status of Women committee  Thanks very much to the committee for the invitation. The National Association of Women and the Law, NAWL, is a non-profit organization that has been working to improve the legal status of women in Canada through legal education, research, and law reform advocacy since 1974. My