Status of Women committee  I'll try. It's only something I've just started thinking about. Let me say, first of all, we can and do raise money for the work that we do. However, it is extremely difficult to raise money for litigation. I've been doing it for 30 years. It takes people who are highly, highly

Status of Women committee  I can't answer the status part, but I think I can speak to the international part. Virtually every country that has emerged from whatever kind of government into a democracy--China, eastern Europe, African countries--has come to Canada; they are looking to us for our models and

Status of Women committee  Just very briefly, I believe that under the order of reference that the committee has, it's possible for the committee to separate, perhaps, the principles--many of which we're talking about in terms of access, in terms of how we look at our democracy, how we build our democracy-

Status of Women committee  Thank you. My name is Elizabeth Atcheson. I'd like to make three points about the broader context relevant to consideration of the court challenges program. It has been a modest but important and uniquely Canadian portage between some very challenging spaces for women and girls