Status of Women committee  I want to talk very briefly about root causes. We've heard a lot of people say colonization. Remember that the colonizer was also a patriarch. Patriarchy is part of what colonization means. We're still doing it. When we talk about matrimonial property, when we talk about Bill C-3

Status of Women committee  Absolutely I think that. In fact we--

Status of Women committee  That's absolutely right.

Status of Women committee  Yes: civil society's direct participation.

Status of Women committee  I do too. The other thing is that we've put forward models that would actually provide a way for civil society to come forward with particular issues to say, look, we really know about this particular recommendation that was made and what's needed in order to implement it fully,

Status of Women committee  Okay. When recommendations come back that have to do with human rights, at least the treaty bodies are clear--Canada doesn't seem to be--that different levels of government may be responsible for the implementation of these rights. For example, let's say we were genuinely goin

Status of Women committee  Yes, but you and I are not understanding each other properly, then, because I'm talking about a mechanism to deal with the implementation of the recommendations that come back from the treaty bodies. I'm not talking about the reporting--

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  Yes. I think there's a way too. It's just not being done.

Status of Women committee  Well, let me speak to the accountability mechanisms first. I think accountability mechanisms are extraordinarily important, and in my mind it's not simply a question of what you think about in terms of this report. This report is about the human rights of aboriginal women and gi

Status of Women committee  It seems to me that we have so many examples—and Darcie and other people at the table have mentioned some of them—of how the system itself is punishing the women. They're punishing the women for being the victims of violence. I'll add to what Darcie says. If you're here in this

Status of Women committee  I am honoured to have with me today Sharon McIvor, whom I'm sure the members of Parliament will know. Sharon also has a very long history on this particular issue, having been on the panel on violence against women and the aboriginal women's circle on that panel, and a member of

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Maybe I could add just one very brief comment about Bill C-3. As it stands at the moment, Bill C-3 still leaves out many hundreds--and perhaps thousands--of aboriginal women and their descendants, purely because of the sex discrimination in the Indian Act th

Finance committee  I think what I'd like to say is that we believe Canada's human rights treaties put obligations on the federal government. We're asking for budgets to actually reflect the human rights commitments Canada has made so that we put budgets and human rights together and we really start

Finance committee  The B.C. CEDAW Group doesn't have clients per se. What I would say in answer to your question, however, is that we're still seeing the results of what the federal government did in 1995 when it thought it was dealing with a deficit, right? The withdrawal of the federal government