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| The Ad Hoc Coalition for Women's Equality and Human Rights came together in 2006. International Women’s Week 2007 was the beginning of
an ongoing
campaign to reverse the Harper cuts and pressure the federal
government and the opposition to commit to concrete and meaningful
measures to advance women’s equality in Canada. For more information about the Ad Hoc Coalition for Women's Equality and Human Rights and how to join, please visit About Us. |
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| Prorogation H(arper) |
Stop the Harpocracy on Women's Progress |
Stop Playing with Women's Lives |
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| Gun Registry Critical To Stop Domestic Violence Murders |
| Live-In Caregivers Left Behind in Pink Book |
| Single Parent Fired Due To Child Care Obilgations |
| Women's Voices Silenced Yet Again |
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| PROROGATION H(arper) |
| Instructions: TO BE USED WHEN DEMOCRACY BECOMES TOO PAINFUL
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Stephen Harper has told Canadians where they can put their democratic rights.
When he shut the doors of Parliament for two months he shut down the voice of the Canadian people. But he is used to doing that, especially to women.
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In 2006, Canada was ranked Number FOURTEEN out of 150 countries the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index
WE NOW RANK NUMBER THIRTY ONE. |
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What happened? Prime Minister Stephen Harper happened. Since 2006 he has:
• Cut funding to women’s advocacy by 43%
• Shut 12 out of 16 Status of Women offices in Canada
• Eliminated funding of women and minority groups’ legal voice, the National Association of Women and the Law and the Courts Challenges Program
In 2010:
• Canada ranks 52nd in the world in female Parliamentary representation (on par with Ethiopia and Pakistan)
• Canadian women working full-time earn 70.5% of the amount men do.
• Women aged 16 and over earn $24,400 and men aged 16 and over earn $39,300.
The Ad Hoc Coalition for Women’s Equality and Human Rights, comprised of 30 organizations, was created in 2006 to end the assault on women’s equality. But it needs cold hard cash to keep the message out there – GET EVEN WITH STEPHEN! |
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Please make out cheques to “The Canadian Federation of University Women” and send them to:
The Canadian Federation of University Women,
Attention: Ad Hoc Coalition for Women’s Equality and Human Rights
251 Bank Street, Suite 305,
Ottawa, ON, K2P 1X3
(ALL DONORS WHO DONATE $25.00 OR MORE RECEIVE A COPY OF “THE COOK BOOK FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY”.)
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| Disclaimer: The Ad Hoc Coalition for Women’s Equality and Human Rights is a not-for-profit organization. It is not however, a registered charity. We are unable to issue tax receipts for donations received. |
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LET’S WORK TOGETHER TO END THE HARPOCRACY! |
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If you would like to download the Prorogation H(arper) information as a PDF, please click here. |
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| STOP THE HARPOCRACY ON WOMEN’S PROGRESS |
The Alternative Report issued in response to the Federal Government’s report on women’s progress in Canada fifteen years after the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is a refreshing counterpoint to the Harper Government’s manipulation of the facts. The Alternative Report will be submitted by women’s groups at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York in March. The Commission will discuss progress on women’s rights made by world governments including Canada since 1995.
The Government of Canada should hang its head in shame. In 2006, Canada was ranked number 14 out of 150 countries (90 percent of the world’s population) by the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index. It now ranks number thirty-one. Women have been bound and gagged for the past four years. Held at knife point are pay equity, advocacy, universal child care, Aboriginal women and women in poverty – the Conservatives scrapped 134 women’s programs in 2006. Twelve of sixteen Status of Women’s offices were shut, Canada’s universal day care plan abandoned and the Courts Challenges Program defunded as was Federal funding to women’s equality groups. The Alternative Report cites “senior policy advisors within the office of the Prime Minister with strong links to anti-feminist organizations,” as one explanation for the attack on pro-women groups.
The official Government Report is nauseating reading. Take this gem: “Canada remains firmly committed to working with Aboriginal women to bring real improvements…to ensure Aboriginal women…feel safe and empowered. The Government isn’t firmly committed enough to investigate the 520 murdered and disappeared Aboriginal women in Canada – the Conservatives continue to stall discussion on the issue. Or this one: “Canada recognizes that families are the building blocks of a society and that child care is a priority for Canadian families.” The Conservative’s scrapping of a universal child care program for a $100.00 a month beer and popcorn allowance to parents with children under six would indicate otherwise.
Refreshingly, the Alternative Report entitled “Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) On the Occasion of the 15th Anniversary of its Adoption (2010): A Canadian Non-Governmental Response says what is really going on: “there has been a sharp decrease in institutional and political support by the Government of Canada for the promotion and protection of the human rights of women and girls during the period 2004-2009.”
Fifteen years after Beijing, being born female in Canada is to born a second class citizen. You earn $0.72 to a man’s dollar and live in a country that ranks behind Somalia in its representation of women in Parliament. If you are female and Aboriginal, elderly, disabled or from a visible minority, you are really out of luck. The poverty rate for Aboriginal women is 36%; for women of colour 29% for women with disabilities 23% for single women over 65 it is 17%.
This has to stop. This International Women’s Day on March 8, 2010. Make your voice be heard. Help end the Harpocracy.
- Claire Tremblay, Coordinator, on behalf of the Ad Hoc Coalition for Women’s Equality and Human Rights
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| STOP PLAYING WITH WOMEN’S LIVES |
Ideological game playing by the Harper Government in excluding abortion and contraception in an initiative to improve maternal health at this year’s G-8 summit will cost lives, states the Ad Hoc Coalition for Women’s Equality and Human Rights. On February 10, 2010 International Cooperation Minister, Bev Oda confirmed abortion and contraception will not be included in the plan. Harper stated he would “champion” the issue of maternal health at the G-8 summit hosted by Canada in June this year.
Excluding abortion and contraception flies in the face of a United Nations study in December 2009, stating access to modern contraception and safe abortion could prevent up to 40% of maternal deaths worldwide. The United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) study in Guinea Bissau showed a significant drop in maternal deaths when ten percent of women had access to reliable birth control. One in thirteen women dies in childbirth in Guinea Bissau. The United Nations estimates that half a million women die every year around the world from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth leaving around one million children without mothers. A lack of access to safe abortion also forces women in the developing world to continue with pregnancies that are unwanted, unsafe or the result of incest or rape.
Harper’s decision to leave out contraception and abortion in his initiative is consistent with Federal funding cuts. Days after Harper’s sudden interest in maternal health, he cut 99 percent of funding to the Canadian Federation of Sexual Health. The Federation is Canada’s member of the International Planned Parenting Federation which supports abortion and contraception. KAIROS (Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives) one of Canada’s oldest aid agencies also took a hit when the Federal Government’s flag ship international aid agency Canadian International Development Agency withdrew its funding. KAIROS, a church based non-governmental organization provides contraception funding as part of its international social justice work. Previous to the funding cut, CIDA had funded KAIROS for more than three decades.
Giving women in the developing access to modern contraception and abortion is more important than ever. Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD) reports 201 million women worldwide have an unmet need for contraception. The decision not to fund groups that provide funding to groups that espouse contraception is also contrary to the Millennium Development Goals signed by Canada in 2000. The MDG’s are committed to ending extreme poverty worldwide and includes the target of”universal access to sexual reproductive health by 2015.” Canada was one of 189 countries to sign the MDGs.
“These Harper-led funding cuts that hurt women in Canada and in the developing world smack of Bush era politics which banned federal funding to international groups that performed abortions,” said (x) of the Ad Hoc Coalition for Women’s Equality and Human Rights. “Ideologically driven funding cuts based on religious beliefs that attack a woman’s right to choose, have no place in Canada. “
These funding cuts have come at a time when the anti-abortion issue has again made headlines in Canada. In 2006, the year Stephen Harper was elected, six major newspaper in Canada published editorials or opinion pieces calling for new anti-abortion legislation. In the same year, two bills were introduced by anti-abortion MP’s – one to bestow personhood on fetuses, paving the way for a ban on abortion and another to make abortion after 20 weeks illegal. More recently, the introduction of a private members bill, “Unborn Victims of Crime Act” (C-484) would have given a fetus legal status, opening the door to questioning the legality of abortion. The bill would have made the death or injury of a fetus an indictable offence, separate from a crime against the mother.
Despite, overwhelming evidence that access to abortion and contraception could save hundreds and thousands of lives, Harper is instead relying on clean water, better food and inoculations to do the job. Harper recently outlined his plan to promote maternal health in an opinion piece in the Toronto Star. Unfortunately, even this half-hearted policy doesn’t extend to Harper’s own backyard.
The day prior to Harper’s maternal health expose, two major studies showed the Inuit infant mortality rate to be four times the Canadian average while 70 percent of Inuit preschoolers don’t have enough food at home. In one town, Nunavik in northern Quebec, the infant mortality rate is 18.1 per 1,000 babies born – almost the same rate as in Mexico. Inuit children have the highest rate of hospital admission for lower respiratory tract infections in the world. The rate of premature delivery is three times what it is in the south. In 2000, the average maternal mortality rate for Canadian women was 5.8 deaths per 10,000 births. The National Aboriginal Health Organization estimates the rate is double for Indians and Inuit – a rate closer to that of some developing nations.
As for Canadian women, it is doubtful that Harper’s sudden interest in championing women in the developing world will wash. They have heard those words before. Shortly after taking power, Harper broke his pre-election promise to “take concrete and immediate measures…to ensure Canada upholds its commitments to women.” He removed the words “equality” out of the Status of Women’s mandate, closed 12 out of 16 SWC offices, abandoned a Universal childcare program and killed off the Courts Challenges Program. The program subsidized Constitutional test cases for finally disadvantaged groups including women. A major beneficiary of the program was the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) that intervened in over 150 constitutional equality cases including violence against women, sexual assault and pay equity issues.
The cutbacks have contributed to Canada’s increasing gender gap in the conditions men and women experience in Canada.
“Harper’s hypocritical stance in claiming to be a champion of women and children in the developing world while engaging in four years of attacks upon women in Canada is a disgrace,” Claire Tremblay of the Ad Hoc Coalition stated. “Harper is no champion of women in the developing world or in Canada instead he has proven himself to be a bully that uses ideology to cheat women out of their human rights.”
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| GUN REGISTRY CRITICAL TO STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MURDERS |
A repeal of the long gun registry by the Harper Government would destroy millions of gun registry records and put the lives of Canadian women at risk, the Ad Hoc Coalition of Women’s Equality and Human Rights stated this week. The registry has enabled police to revoke 9,000 licenses since its introduction in 2003.
The Private Member’s bill (C-391) to end the long gun registry (hunting rifles and shotguns) could become law as soon as early this year. The bill sponsored by Conservative Candice Hoeppner passed its second reading November 5, 2009. The bill was put on ice during Harper’s prorogation of Parliament but will be reopened when Parliament starts on March 3, 2010. If the bill passes its third reading in Parliament, the bill will become law.
Last week, it was revealed the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is pressuring Liberals and the NDP to appoint anti-gun registry MP’s to a Public Safety Committee considering the bill. The Committee comprised of six government and six opposition MP’s will review the bill in March. Recommendations from the Committee will be presented to Parliament.
Repealing the registry would destroy eight million firearms records. This means Canadian police who query the Canadian Firearms Registry Online more than 10,000 times a day will no longer know the whereabouts or ownership of millions of guns in Canada. The registry is a critical tool for police responding to cries of help from domestic violence victims or persons at risk of suicide. It allows police to check if a house contains long gun arms. Statistics show where a gun is involved in domestic violence a woman is 12 times more likely to be murdered. The Domestic Violence Death Review Committee found access to firearms was present in 47% of domestic homicides in 2007.
“The Ad Hoc Coalition is alarmed at the Conservative government’s attempt to abandon a critical method of gun control,” Susan Russell from the Ad Hoc Coalition said. “Abandoning the gun registry will seriously undermine the ability of the police to prevent crime and to intervene in dangerous situations such as domestic violence and attempted suicide.”
The gun registry is supported by the Canadian Association of Police Chiefs, the Canadian Police Association, the Centre for Suicide Prevention, the Canadian Paediatric Society, the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians and more than 40 women’s groups. Average Canadians also support gun control; an Ipsos Reid Poll in 2006 revealed three out of four Canadians want stricter, not looser gun controls.
“It is a small step for a gun owner to register his or her gun, “said Susan Russell of the Ad Hoc Coalition. “It is a one-time, free of charge filing procedure. Every day Canadians register cars, employees, charities and even newborns. It makes no sense to exclude owners of long guns from their duty as citizens.”
Compliance with the gun registry has been high. More than 90% of Canada’s two million gun owners have registered their guns. Partly as a result of the registry, 333 fewer Canadians have died from guns since 1995. The number of suicides and domestic violence deaths by firearms has also gone down significantly.
Harper announced his intention to repeal the registry in December 2009, days before the 20th anniversary of the Montreal gun massacre. During the 1989 massacre, fourteen young women were shot to death by a lone gunman at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique. The gun registry was set up in response to public outrage over the massacre. Since 1989, the year of the Montreal tragedy, there have been 5 school shootings in Canada and over 60 school shootings in the United States. Most recently, eight people were shot by a lone gunman in Virginia on January 20, 2010.
“Announcing the repeal of the registry at a sad moment in Canada’s history is an insult to victims of gun violence, their families, and friends and to all Canadians concerned about violence in this country,” said Susan Russell of the Ad Hoc Coalition. This legislation cannot be allowed to become law.”
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| LIVE-IN CAREGIVERS LEFT BEHIND IN PINK BOOK |
The Liberal’s plan to promote women’s equality in Canada fails to address the issue of the exploitation of temporary female workers who come to Canada as nannies. The lack of any reference to the Live-in Caregiver Program also stymies attempts to produce a comprehensive Universal Child Care plan for Canada.
The 40 page Pink Book Volume III released in October 2009 by the 39 Liberal female Members of Parliament and Senators outlines the Liberal Party’s policies to address “women’s issues” including childcare. Missing in the analysis on childcare are the more than 2,000 live-in caregivers who come to Canada each year under the Temporary Foreign Worker program.
Canada’s TFWP Live-in Caregiver Program has come under scrutiny by Amnesty International for the vulnerability it places women in. Ninety-five percent of the workers who come to Canada under the program are women. Three-quarters of women under the program come from the Philippines. Of concern is the requirement that workers must live in their employer’s home for 24 months to 36 months. If the worker fails to meet this requirement they may be deported. If the worker completes the time requirement, the worker may apply for permanent residency to Canada.
The threat of deportation and the lure of remaining in Canada make temporary foreign workers vulnerable to exploitation, sexual harassment and violence. Although TFW’s under the Live-in Caregiver Programme have the right to report abuses, this is difficult in practice. A worker who complains about their employer, or who flees their employer’s home due to violence, risks being unable to meet the requirements to remain in Canada.
Discussion of the creation of a new Universal Child Care Program in Canada is incomplete without taking into account the Live-in Caregiver Program. Canada needs to create a high-quality Universal Child Care plan that does not include exploiting vulnerable women from the developing world.
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| SINGLE PARENT FIRED DUE TO CHILD CARE OBLIGATIONS |
A recent British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ruling that upheld the dismissal of a single parent who refused overtime due to child care obligations is a backward step for working parents. The decision could negatively impact the lives of working single parent families, 83% of which are headed by women.
Mr. Falardeau was fired in 2007 for refusing to work a furniture removal shift that started at 4pm. Working overtime would have incurred significant financial penalties for Mr. Falardeau. His son had access to child care until 6:00pm. After this time, Mr. Falardeau's child care provider charged ten dollars for each minute of childcare after 6:00pm. Mr. Falardeau, who had sole custody of his son, argued the requirement that he work overtime under such circumstances was unreasonable.
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal dismissed the complaint, ruling Falardeau failed to establish a prima facie or plausible case of discrimination based on family status. In its decision, the Tribunal stated prima facie discrimination occurs where an employment condition "results in a serious interference with a substantial parental or family duty or obligation of the employee." It went on to state, "in a vast majority of situations in which there is a conflict between a work requirement and a family obligation it would be difficult to make out a prima facie case."
The Tribunal's finding flies in the face of a Federal Court decision in 2007 overturning a similar family status ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. In Johnstone v. Canada (Attorney General) a full-time customs inspector at the Canada Border Security Agency was unable to find child care that matched her husband's shift schedule. Johnstone requested a change in work shifts to enable her to schedule child care when she was not at work. The request was denied and Johnstone was forced to accept a lower paid part-time position. The Court criticized the Tribunal for setting "an unduly restrictive threshold" to establish family status discrimination. It concluded the Tribunal had applied a higher standard of proof to demonstrate family status discrimination than for other types of discrimination.
It is the Coalition's position that being fired for not working over-time hours (without employer accommodation) that interfere with child care obligations is prima facie discrimination. The decision in Falardeau hurts an already vulnerable group in society - single parent families.
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal reports female-led single parent families are the most likely of all family types to suffer persistent low income. In 2004, Statistics Canada reported 38% of single mothers lived in poverty, compared to 13% of lone father families and 7% of two-parent families. Female-led single parent families from racialized communities face even greater disadvantage. The need to meet basic family care giving obligations should not result in job loss or economic penalties, particularly for Canada's most vulnerable.
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WOMEN’S VOICES SILENCED YET AGAIN |
Who could have imagined Canada would need a pro-democracy movement? That thought was expressed at the January 23 Parliament Hill rally to protest Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s two month prorogation of Parliament. By shutting down Parliament, Harper shut down the voice of the people of Canada.
Silenced yet again, are Canadian women. As if slashing funding to women’s advocacy groups and eliminating the Courts Challenges Program wasn’t enough, Harper has shut down women’s yet voices again - this time on the disappearance of Aboriginal women and a bill to address Canada’s homelessness crisis.
These issues of vital importance to Canadian women would have tackled on a national scale Canada’s homelessness crisis and the disappearance and murder of more than 500 Aboriginal women since 1970.
Canada is the only country in the G-8 without a national housing strategy. The New Democratic Party’s Bill C-304 “an Act to ensure, adequate, accessible and affordable housing for Canadians,” would have forced Parliament to establish one. The bill introduced by New Democratic Party MP Libby Davies would have achieved a National Housing Strategy through consultation between the Minister for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, provincial ministers, municipalities and Aboriginal Communities. The bill passed its second reading in November 2009, upon a successful third reading the bill would have become law.
The recession makes affordable housing an issue that can no longer wait. More than half a million jobs were lost in Canada and more than 150,000 Canadian households have been evicted since the start of the recession. Worse, Canada’s housing supply deficit (the difference between the number of rental seeking households and rental units available) is growing at 220,000 households annually.
Prorogation stopped progress on this important bill. Closing the doors of Parliament means up to 300,000 Canadians are spending another winter on the streets. Another three million Canadians – nearly 15% of the Canadian population - live in unaffordable housing. More than 705, 165 households subsist in over-crowded housing. (Figures from the Wellesley Institute – Submission on Bill C-304.)
Why is Bill C-304 important to women? A Canadian Medical Association study published in April, 2004 stated homeless women in Toronto are dying at ten times the rate of non-homeless women aged between 18 to 44 years of age. In the same year, a Statistics Canada study showed 20% of homeless women in Toronto had been sexually assaulted or raped in the last 12 months. This compares to 3% of women in the general population. For Aboriginal women, the situation is even more desperate. There are an estimated 3,000 homeless women and their children in Canada’s North, where the temperature can dip to –60 degrees Celsius. Greater Vancouver has an Aboriginal population of 2%, while Aboriginal people comprise up to 30% of the City’s homeless population.
“It is simply unacceptable that Canada’s most vulnerable citizens – women and children living in absolute homeless have to endure two more months of fear and human degradation due to prorogation of Parliament,” said Jessica Notwell from the Ad Hoc Coalition for Women’s Equality and Human Rights. “Harper needs to get back to work and allow Parliament to discuss and hopefully turn into law this urgently needed bill.”
Homeless Canadian women and their children will now suffer the indignities of homelessness for more weeks to come - all because Stephen Harper decided he wanted a break from work. The homeless have waited a long time for their voices to be heard. The Harper Conservatives have obstructed two other bills (Bills C-382 and C-509) calling for a national housing strategy which date back to 2005. Through prorogation of Parliament, Stephen Harper has made it clear that homeless women and their children don’t count.
“Canada ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which includes the right to adequate housing, Stephen Harper needs to open the doors of Parliament immediately to allow Canada to meet its international obligations under this Covenant,” said Jessica Notwell from the Ad Hoc Coalition of Women’s Equality and Human Rights.
Stephen Harper has also made it clear that Aboriginal women don’t count. Since 1970, 520 Aboriginal women have been murdered or gone missing – almost half of them in the last decade. Of that number, 67 percent were murdered and 24 percent are still missing. Fourteen percent of the missing girls were under 18 years of age. Many of the missing Aboriginal women and girls disappeared along the Highway of Tears in the interior of British Columbia.
Liberal Status of Women Critic Anita Neville has repeatedly called for the Conservative Government to launch a comprehensive and national investigation into the missing Aboriginal women. Time and again, the Conservatives have failed to take action on the matter. In May 2009, the Liberals asked for a full investigation in the House of Commons. A reply was received in June from the Conservatives that did not address the request for a national investigation. The most recent request was made by Ms. Neville on January 29, 2010. In August 2009, the Manitoba Government intervened and announced it would investigate unsolved cases in its provinces. While welcome, this falls short of a national investigation. Prorogation by the Conservative Government has further delayed democratic discussion on this important issue.
“Despite the Harper governments so called law and order agenda, the Conservatives have conveniently ignored the issue of the disappearance of Aboriginal women in Canada,” said Jessica Notwell of the Ad Hoc Coalition for Women’s Equality and Human Rights.
“It is completely unacceptable for 520 women in Canada to go missing or murdered and for there to be no national investigation into the matter. This is just another example of the Conservative Government treating women as if they do not count.”
Ironically, while prorogation has stopped a national investigation into violence against Aboriginal women, Bill C-391 to repeal the gun registry will proceed. The private members bill passed its second reading in November 2009. Upon return of Parliament on March 3, the bill will be revived to the stage it was at prior to prorogation. That means it will be subject to a third reading when Parliament resumes its next session. If the bill passes its third reading, the long gun registry set up in response to the Montreal massacre of 14 women will no longer exist.
Repealing the registry would destroy eight million firearms records. This means Canadian police will no longer know the whereabouts or ownership of millions of guns in Canada. The registry is a critical tool for police attempting to assist domestic violence victims – the vast majority of whom are women. It allows police to check if a house contains long gun arms – critical knowledge as a woman is 12 times more likely to be murdered if their abuser has a gun. The Domestic Violence Death Review Committee found access to firearms was present in 47% of domestic homicides in 2007.
The delay prorogation has caused in investigating the deaths of Aboriginal women and a national housing strategy adds to the pain women have felt under the Harper Government. Since coming to power, Harper removed the pursuit of equality” from the mandate of Status of Women Canada (SWC), closed 12 out of 16 SWC offices in Canada and cut $5 million dollars of funding to the already underfunded Status of Women. Any women’s groups that advocated for women’s equality had their funding removed completed.
The Harper Government abandoned the Liberals’ plan for universal child care, put pay equity on hold and cut funding to women’s advocacy groups. The Court Challenges Program that subsidized test cases under the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms was killed off. The program allowed financially disadvantaged groups to assert their constitutional rights. A major beneficiary was the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) which intervened in over 150 constitutional equality cases including violence against women, sexual assault and pay equity issues.
The prorogation of Parliament and the loss of democratic discussion on these two key issues is another assault by the Harper Government on Canadian women’s democratic rights. The Harper Government’s prorogation represents the most recent attempt to shut down female voices in Canada. The Coalition strongly believes women in Canada won’t be so easily silenced.
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The Ad Hoc Coalition for Women's Equality and Human Rights presents: |
"Cookbook for Women's Equality:
Out of the kitchen, cooking up equality!" |
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This handy little book shows you how to make some tasty recipes
contributed by women's organizations in Canada, as well as how to
whip up a batch of old-fashioned organizing around key issues of
importance to women. Child care. Pay equity. Cuts to Status of Women
Canada . Cancellation of the Court Challenges Program. Get your
crayons out because there's even a kids' colouring page featuring
the one and only Stephen Harper! |
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The Ad Hoc Coalition for Women's Equality and Human Rights can
take your orders. The price is $5 per Cookbook. Please click here to order the Cookbook for Women's Equality using the online order form. Please specify English and/or
French copies of the Cookbook. All proceeds from Cookbook
sales go to the Ad Hoc Coalition to support a Canada-wide fight
back campaign around these issues. |
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