| |
Conservatives |
Liberals |
NDP |
BQ |
Greens |
|
| Funding for Democracy and Women’s Equality |
| |
| In favour of reinstating Status of Women regional offices |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| In favour of reinstating full funding for the Court Challenges Program |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Women’s Political Representation |
| |
| Pledged to nominate more women in 2008 than they did in 2006 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Met that pledge in winnable ridings as of May 2008 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Supports electoral reform |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
|
| Women and the Environment |
| |
| Supports cutting greenhouse gas emissions in line with targets in the Kyoto protocol |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Advocates for a carbon tax |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Supports caps and trading for large industrial polluters |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Reproductive Rights |
| |
| A majority of MPs voted against Bill C-484 at second reading |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
N/A |
| Committed to specifically allocating a % of official development assistance for sexual and reproductive health services |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
| Pay Equity |
| |
| Pledged to introduce new pay equity legislation based on the recommendations of the Pay Equity Task Force. |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Child Care |
| |
| Supports adopting a federal law mandating a child care system |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Believes increased federal funds are needed to make quality programs available/affordable to families |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Will prevent a corporate take-over of child care programs in Canada |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
|
| Foreign Policy and Development Policy |
| |
| Supports the participation of, and the integration of the needs of, women and girls in peacebuilding |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
N/A |
Yes |
| Support devoting 0.7 % of its Gross National Income to Official Development Assistance |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| In favour of the withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan by or before 2009 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Women in Poverty |
| |
| Committed to a comprehensive package to reduce poverty in Canada |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Pledged substantive direct income transfers to low-income women with children (over $2000/year per child) |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
|
| Women and the Economy |
| |
| Will the party’s economic policies benefit most women? |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Will the party’s taxation policies benefit most women? |
No |
No |
Yes |
N/A |
Yes |
| Will proposed changes to the EI system benefit most women? |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| * This analysis is based on public information available as of September 10, 2008. |
