Premise: Mr. Speaker, earlier I asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs if, in the spirit of the Beijing conference on women, he would assure that funding for the women's group going to APEC this week in Vancouver would be there, as I had had calls from my constituents who are members of women's groups and who were not getting any funding to go.
Hypothesis: The women's group doesn't have enough funding by themselves to go to the conference, or they don't want to pay for it themselves.