A nail in the coffin of women's equality?
Rabble News
By: Judy Rebick
16 Oct 06

In early October, the federal government announced dramatic changes to Status of Women Canada that will, in effect, eliminate federal funding to feminist organizations in Canada. Combined with the removal of the Court Challenges Program, these changes will end the era of Canadian democracy that recognized the need for state funding to marginalized groups. The Harper government has taken us one more step toward U.S.-style "democracy" where only the powerful have access to government.

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