These 50,000 women represented hundreds and thousands more - millions in fact. It is true that they are at the forefront of the struggle to open society's path to progress, but this is not what the Liberals have in mind. But they refuse to discuss and permit the society to draw warranted conclusions. It is a declaration followed by a dictate which makes any other view illegal. The stand of these Ministers is hypocritical and self-serving.
Democratic renewal is the order of the day.
From the governments at all levels and the monopoly media we hear that women in Canada have equality, that Canada is the best place in the world to live. Canada has the fifth largest wage gap between women and men full-time workers out of 29 OECD countries. Only Spain, Portugal, Japan and Korea have larger wage gaps. Sixty-seven percent of minimum wage earners in Canada are women. A substantial proportion of employed women worked part-time.