Finance committee  Thank you very much. We've always supported a wide range of choices for mothers and fathers. If the mother, or both parents, want to work, they should have a choice of a relative caring for the child or a small day care centre. In February 2005 the Vanier Institute of the Fami

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. REAL Women of Canada is a national organization of women from all walks of life and from differing economic, social, cultural, and religious backgrounds. We are united in our concern for the family, the basic unit of society. Since our incorporation in

Justice committee  We would like to add our support to Bill C-268. Human trafficking, which involves the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of individuals for sexual or labour exploitation, is in our opinion modern-day slavery. The offence of human trafficking is one of t

Justice committee  Thank you very much. REAL Women of Canada is a national organization of women from all walks of life, occupations, and social and economic backgrounds. We recognize the family as the most important unit of Canadian society. We see the fragmentation of the family as one of the ma

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Right now, women are discouraged from staying at home to raise their children. In Quebec, people say that it costs $7 a day, but it costs government between $7,000 and $8,000 per child to fund daycares. It costs nearly $10,000 per child when both parents are working. But a paren

Finance committee  At the moment, parents do not have a choice. Taxes are so high and there are so many more advantages for parents who both work that women are forced to stay in the workforce. The system that recommends equality was established to increase the workforce. The idea was to get women

Finance committee  People are so used to looking at the situation from the point of view that women should be out working...

Finance committee  Our funding comes from subscriptions to our bimonthly publication. So it is our members who support us.

Finance committee  The word “REAL” stands for Realistic, Equal, Active for Life, but it also means “real” women of Canada.

Finance committee  I'd like to correct an assumption that you've made about our organization. Perhaps they can answer later on.

Finance committee  We have no problem with feminists, or for that matter anyone in a democratic society, expressing themselves, expressing views, and promoting whatever they want to promote for women and their views of equality and dignity, etc. But we object to the government funding an organizati

Finance committee  No, we don't. But we recognize there is an unfairness there, a discrimination, and we would like that corrected.

Finance committee  The needs of the family have been neglected for so long, to the point where we need to reverse the direction of taxation to make the family stronger by any means we can. High taxation is a difficulty for families. Now, Statistics Canada tells us that the intact family is the best

Finance committee  Well, there's discrimination against the intact family, the family who choose the traditional way of approaching the formation of the next generation. This is what I—