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By Gudrun Schultz

  OTTAWA, Ontario, November 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Liberal Women’s Caucus released policy recommendations on women’s issues today, entitled The Pink Book: A Framework for Canada’s Future, Volume 1. The recommendations are largely directed against the Conservative “attack” on women’s rights, according to MP Belinda Stronach, who chairs the NLWC.

  During the press conference on the Pink book, Liberal MP Judy Sgro, stated: “Harper and his Conservative Government based on their policies would clearly prefer women would stay barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen and move us backwards forty years.”

  Stronach said, “The National Liberal Women’s Caucus has long been an active and passionate voice for Canadian women. Today, that voice is required more than ever as the Conservative government pursues an ideological agenda that ignores the needs of many women and cuts the funding of groups dedicated to those who need help most.”

“Equality” for women should be reinstated as the main goal of the Women’s Program, the Pink Book insists, in opposition to the new policy directives for Status of Women Canada (SOW) and the government’s significant reduction in federal funding. SOW’s policy directives no longer include lobbying for “women’s equality” and instead concentrate on the achievement of “the full participation of women” in Canadian society.

  The Pink Book calls for the reversal of the 43 percent budget cut to Status of Women Canada and a 25 percent minimum annual increase in funding to the program.

  The book also demands the reinstatement of social programs cut by the Conservative government, along with the controversial Court Challenges Program, and the implementation of the Liberal child care and early learning plan.

“The work of the Liberal Women’s Caucus could not be more important than it is now, when we see the Conservative government trying to turn back the clock on the progress women have gained in gender equality issues,” Stronach wrote.

  View Pink Book fact sheet:
  https://www.liberal.ca/news_e.aspx?type=news&id=12071

  Read Pink Book (PDF):
  https://www.liberal.ca/pdf/docs/PinkBook_ENG.pdf

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  Canadian Conservative Government Slashes Funding to Wasteful Anti-Family Programs
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