Tories slash Status of Women budget by $5-million!
Congratulations to Suzanne, whose recent blogburst no doubt had some influence on the cut.
Plus: the Court Challenges Program is dead. Ding dong!
However, I don’t agree with eliminating the program whereby foreign tourists get sales tax refunds. “No taxation without representation”, right? Why should non-citizens be forced to increase our coffers?
But for now, as one of my correspondents put it: time to do a Snoopy dance!
I can’t stand it when governments fund overtly political groups and think tanks. It’s just a way of funneling the people’s money to their side of the political spectrum. The government just has to make sure the recepients aren’t officially aligned with their party.
Let’s cut funding to even more political groups (left, right, or center). If an organization needs money they can do it the old fashion way – raise it from private citizens. If that doesn’t work, well there wasn’t much need or support for that organization anyway.
if the $5 million cut chops personnel that create the spending programs for the rest, then it’s a precision move with ripples coming later …
we can only hope
“If you leave for monetary reasons then your motive is greed”
I’d be interested in knowing how many people would agree with this and if they would also have no problem with all of our “dual citizens” living in Lebanon. That would be pure hypocricy.
Tex-Can is working out of country, I’m sure for the sole purpose of getting by and topping up the RSP’s.
I’d be less worried about him and more concerned with those in Lebanon who own a Canadian passport for the sole purpose of free welfare/healthcare in the event that the jihad gets a little too hot and heavy for poor little Ahmed and Fatima.
Seriously Brownie, What province do you park your sanctimonious butt in? I sure as h*ll would not like you as a neighbour.
If preventing bankruptcy is being greedy then colour me greedy. I moved to a job that enabled me to pay off my debt, put food on the table and clothes on the kids (so to speak). This makes me no less a citizen of Canada than you or anyone else of your ilk. Cretien and his gang of thugs were responsible for my losing my military position. And guess what? After paying into UI for 25 years, I couldn’t collect! So don’t you dare tell me I don’t deserve to come back to my country. I served my country, what did you do besides suck on a Lieberal teat?
Like I’ve said before, expect more good stuff to come from Canada’s New Government.
This billion bucks? We’ll see billions more/annum being slashed as time goes on… but first we must grant the Conservatives a majority so they can clean up without undue interference from the Opposition, which is addicted to the waste.
We must also support serious Senate reform so the Senate cannot hold up legislation for partisan purposes, like the Liberals are doing with the Federal Accountability Act.
The Conservatives have long been aware of billions per annum in absolutely wasteful spending by the Liberals. Believe me, they’ve got the smarts and motivation to find what they couldn’t in the past, now that they’re in charge and don’t have to dole out our cash to the moonbat organizations who’ve always supported the Liberals in exchange for that cash and in exchange for the leftist social reengineering desired by that small number of extremist folks.
Hey, Texas Canuck. You’re welcome back to Canada anytime!
In fact, we need more right-thinking people like you!
Texas Canuck, I’m with you. Don’t listen to the moonbats; they’re lost causes. C’mon up here anytime you wish! Canada’s conservative again!
Mr. Young, of Academe,TO-GTA, is depressed, despondent, deprived; at least, his words are. Will have to take up brownie baking, or Stoic Philosophy. …-
– Alan Young teaches law at Osgoode Hall Law School and criminology at the University of Toronto.
His work contributed to the establishment of Canada’s first medical marijuana program. …-
Words at voy forums
Texas Canuck; Brownie is a down Easterner through and through. You’re more than welcome in Alberta and will feel quite at home. Calgary’s home to many Texans, supposedly.
And for the record, there are many Canadians coming here (Alta.) to work 2 or 3 weeks at a time and flying home to their province with pay cheque in hand.
Canada needs less liberal trough suckers like Brownie and more Texans.
Presently reading “Time to Stand”, Story of the Alamo.
Texans fought for their own country.
Liberals steal from theirs.
rabbit says, “Let’s cut funding to even more political groups (left, right, or center).” I agree BUT, rabbit, please name any centre or right group receiving public $.
We need citizens like you Texas – come back ANY TIME. Great news from the New Gov’t of Canada – should have trashed the so called ‘women’s’ groups, though; they are a distructive not a constructive thing – they DO NOT HELP women in trouble, they help themselves and treat women who really need help like trash.
I like the abolishment of non G.S.T. for foreigners. It is not just mom and dad and the kids that take advantage of this rebate – in fact, most bonafide tourists don’t even bother filling out the form.
The blog burst was great to get the info out re:SoW in the last few weeks.Thanks to suzanne,kate and others. But Gwen Landolt has been keeping us informed for years about the waste and abuse of our tax money. She has been tireless in her fight …finally she has people in Ottawa with sense and accountability.A toast to Gwen!!…a REAL Woman!!Hope she is celebrating tonight!!
vf, I second your tribute to Gwen Landolt and all of the valiant members of REAL Women who have been lobbying and challenging the Court Challenges Program ON THEIR OWN DIME for over 25 years. As per usual, they got it in the jugular from the feminists and the MSM, at every turn.
The Globe and Mail (aka the Probe and Fail), when they interviewed Gwen Landolt back in the ’80s, left out the pertinent fact that she is a lawyer, and talked about her fingering her pearls which were laying on her pink angora sweater. Always the feminist/left/lib putdown.
Whenever Judy Anderson, the articulate President of REAL at the beginning of the ’80s appeared on a TV show to be interviewed, it would always be the last time, because she’d blow her opponent away. ‘Can’t have that decided the CBC. Solution? Never invite her back.
It’s been an uphill struggle for Canadian women to cut through the dense brush to the genuine issues that affect our daily lives, with the fembos guarding their anti-male, anti-child, anti-woman agenda, well funded by our tax dollars. I don’t think humble pie will look very good on them, but it’s about time that the Canadian government, on behalf of the rest of us, stood up to them. The NAC and SOW are bullies and need to be stopped. When a group thinks that only their rights count and to H*ll with everyone else, especially when they’re sucking at the public tax-funded teat, it’s time for them to go.
As so many people have said, including REAL Women, let special interest groups fund their own initiatives from their membership. The “official” feminists are terrified of this common sense solution to funding, because they know that without all of the government funding for salaries and perks, their offices would be empty in pretty short order.
Well, womyn, you may be about to experience how the rest of us live, and it’ll look good on you.
Texas,
You owe me one.
I haven’t read all the comments here, but one from wade stands out as particularly revealing. wade is glad the Court Challenges Program has been defunded because it could be used by “homosexuals and minority groups” to challenge laws they think are discriminatory. wade is delighted that they won’t have public funding to assist them in this regard any more, presumably because he doesn’t like and doesn’t respect either minorities or homosexuals.
Far be it from me to suggest that some Canadian Conservatives are indeed the outright bigots the Liberals say they are. Leave that to mental midgets and moral misfits like wade.
I work in a transition house for abused women and children. While, I’m not an extreme feminist (why is that word derogatory anyways?), I do believe in equality among the sexes. I know transition houses are at risk now due to these cuts, as our Coalition has lost it’s funding. Our children support program is at risk too, and any woman who has had her rights violated now knows that there is a government out there who doesn’t care. It’s not just people in other countries, it’s our people too. Why would any woman in this day and age, agree with that? It’s a step backwards, don’t you think? I don’t understand how people can post such cruel comments with regards to these cuts. It’s bothersome to say the least and makes me feel embarrassed for them.
I work in a transition house for abused women and children. While, I’m not an extreme feminist (why is that word derogatory anyways?), I do believe in equality among the sexes. I know transition houses are at risk now due to these cuts, as our Coalition has lost it’s funding. Our children support program is at risk too, and any woman who has had her rights violated now knows that there is a government out there who doesn’t care. It’s not just people in other countries, it’s our people too. Why would any woman in this day and age, agree with that? It’s a step backwards, don’t you think? I don’t understand how people can post such cruel comments with regards to these cuts. It’s bothersome to say the least and makes me feel embarrassed for them.