For decades, REAL Women of Canada has been lobbying to have the federal Status of Women Canada (SWC) abolished. For decades their campaign fell on mostly deaf ears.
Now thanks to the Internet's blogosphere, its efforts suddenly have traction, and the pro-family, pro-life women's organization is being flooded with media calls. Now a real debate on whether Canada needs this agency has begun not only on the Internet, but in the mainstream news media.
"We were shocked," said national vice president Gwen Landolt in an interview. "We've been saying this for a thousand years, it seems."
Landolt opposed SWC because it does not represent all women of Canada, it only "represents feminists."
In the early days of REAL Women in the early 1980s, the organization applied to SWC for funding and was refused.
Landolt realized the federal body only funded groups such as the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, which represents women who favour abortion rights.
According to Landolt, only groups that "take the perverse position" that women are "victims of a patriarchal society" get support from SWC.
"Why is there a portfolio for the status of women?" she asked. "Because women as a whole are not disadvantaged. Why not status of men or Aboriginal people?"
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H/T: Western Catholic Reporter
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