Status of Women committee  Put the funding back, extend it to provincial jurisdictions, and add a lot more money.

Status of Women committee  I think the things that are being mentioned here.... In fact, women made very important interventions to say that what we call rape shield laws were absolutely essential to women being equal in this society. One of the key cases along this line, which was mentioned very briefly

Status of Women committee  Let me say first of all about the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action, yes, we do get money from other sources. It's not a lot. We're trying to figure out ways to get more money from other sources. As far as I'm concerned, I'm in complete agreement with Professor

Status of Women committee  I'd say there's a huge gap at the provincial level because of the lack of court challenges funding, and I don't think there's anything that fills it. It has been a concern of everyone in the community. You can go back in the records from the beginning of the court challenges prog

Status of Women committee  Article 3 of the convention says that signatories to the convention are to take all appropriate measures to advance the equality of women. That essentially puts an obligation on the Canadian government as a signatory to take proactive measures, to take steps to ensure that women

Status of Women committee  I'd appreciate a chance to answer that, particularly given Ms. Landolt's comments. I should start by saying that neither “feminist” nor “lesbian” is a bad word in my lexicon, but I sense that they are in Ms. Landolt's. I'm very proud of being a lesbian and very proud of being a

Status of Women committee  Can I make a suggestion about answering that question? That information is actually available. A lot of it's on the record. I'm not sure you're going to get what you want, going organization by organization, when in fact there's a lot of information available. I might suggest th

Status of Women committee  A number of people have commented that this is one of the most important sex equality cases of the last couple of decades. For aboriginal women, it's clear that this is discrimination that's gone on for a long time, for decades and decades and decades. We've never erased the se

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. I'm very pleased to be here today. I want to start by saying that the court challenges program is one of Canada's most important access-to-justice programs. The equality rights side of the program was added in 1985 when section 15 came into force and John C