Cuts to Status of Women

Sorry for the long delay in my blog. I will be starting up again on a regular basis.
Can anyone doubt that today's cuts to Status of Women Canada is the beginning of the end of the women's program. FAFIA http://www.fafia-afai.org/ and NAWL http://www.nawl.ca/ managed to protect their funding by a major lobby campaign so the cuts announced yesterday are "administrative cuts." The Harper government is smart. They don't want to cut project funding right away and risk the wrath of the women's movement. This is a trial balloon. If they get away with it without much opposition, project funding will be next.

Even more signicant is their elmination of the Court Challenges Program. This is a critical source of funding for marginalized groups who want to launch a charter challenge. Many critics have already pointed out that the Charter has helped corporations and other privileged groups more than it has helped women, people with disabilities and racialized groups now it will be much more slanted in the direction of the privileged. Ideologically, this is the clearest symbol of where the Harper government will be going if ever they are to get a majority.