Status of Women committee  One of the steps of the international mother-baby childbirth initiative is providing evidence-based care and avoiding harmful procedures, but it's also implementing measures that enhance wellness. That includes a lot of things. You have something here that might be worth examinin

Status of Women committee  I think Madame Deschamps brought it up. It has to do with the defence of rights and women's rights and it has to do with that kind of thing. But I--

Status of Women committee  There is also AFEAS and other groups, including the Table des groupes de femmes. He is right to say that we cannot expect long-term and ongoing funding all the time.

Status of Women committee  Yes, it would be better to talk about the international component.

Status of Women committee  As to funding in Quebec, we should still point out that we are ready to provide $85 million for in vitro fertilization on an ongoing basis, but we are not ready to give $1 million for a new birthing centre. There are issues and priorities to be studied. We have not addressed the

Status of Women committee  Canada is all of us; we can all speak out. We can still have credibility. I think we have a responsibility. I think Bridget called out very passionately to it. As citizens groups and as other organizations...and as members of Parliament, you can speak out, and you are doing so. I

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Technology is available and it is important for you and the women who need it, but if we overuse the procedures and treat them as the norm, we start using them when it is not necessary. We do one procedure, which leads to another one and that can lead to death.

Status of Women committee  I was talking about the threshold of intervention. Something is happening in terms of obstetrical procedures. They can be good for us, like a C-section for example. They can also produce the so-called “iatrogenic effect”, when procedures lead to other procedures. When 98% of wome

Status of Women committee  Yes, we agree. I think it is a one-word answer, as Ms. Simpson asked us earlier.

Status of Women committee  Is this a one-word thing again?

Status of Women committee  You know what? I'm just going to say it's the threshold of intervention.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  In Quebec we put together a premise on how to support breastfeeding. We have many baby-friendly hospitals in Quebec, and breastfeeding is taking on a kind of new renaissance. Part of the code of commercialization does not allow hospitals to receive gifts from companies that make

Status of Women committee  I have made a point about the marketing of breast milk substitutes and its corollary to birth. What also worries me is what is going on with women's bodies. This attack on abortion is an attack on women's reproductive health; I get the impression that a woman's body is a territor