Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  I do. In terms of the homophobia, it was very difficult for my family. Somebody once asked me, “Why don't more gay men or women run for politics?” In addition to all the stuff we may deal with because of our gender or something else, that's just one added target. It was a very di

Status of Women committee  In 2011, in Nova Scotia, the Status of Women for Nova Scotia held a campaign school. There were about 67 to 70 women. Out of that school, out of that graduating class over a weekend where we learned strategies about campaigns, politics, and everything you need to know about polit

Status of Women committee  What I have found—and it hasn't changed much since I did a paper on that very topic back in the early 2000s—is that women are the envelope stuffers, the bakers, and the organizers of the events. When it comes to policy decisions, in a lot of the riding associations that I have se

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I don't have a word written down, because I've lived it for the last three and a half years. I came into politics on the cusp of my 50th birthday. I had wanted to put my name on a ballot since the age of eight. At the age of eight, I wrote then-minister Pierre Ellio