1 December 2004
December 1, 2004
Pre-Budget Consultations: 2005 Federal Budget
In NAWL’s Brief to the Finance Committee on the 2005 Federal Budget (as a member of the Coalition for Women’s Equality), we argued that the federal government has sufficient resources to implement a National Child Care Program (see pages 17 and 18). ...
1 December 2004
December 1, 2004
The Recent Québec Appeal Court Decision on the Constitutionality of Maternity and Parental Benefits as Employment Insurance benefits: Some Feminist Reflections
Aside from federal/provincial division of powers arguments, the Québec Appeal Court decision raised some important questions about maternity and parental benefits. The Court saw motherhood as an individual choice and therefore an individual responsibility. At NAWL, we think that society as a ...
1 December 2004
December 1, 2004
The Québec Appeal Court decision on the Constitutionality of Maternity and Parental Benefits as Employment Insurance Benefits
Aside from federal/provincial division of powers arguments, the Québec Appeal Court decision raised some important questions about maternity and parental benefits. The Court saw motherhood as an individual choice and therefore an individual responsibility. At NAWL, we think that society as a ...
27 November 2004
November 27, 2004
2004 Annual Report
Message from the National Steering Committee The last fiscal year, 2003/2004, was again a busy one for the National Association of Women and the Law. Most significantly, perhaps, we took some time to reflect on the future directions of NAWL. Legislatures are ...
22 November 2004
November 22, 2004
2005 Federal Budget
Submissions to the Finance Committee by the Canadian Research Institute on the Advancement of Women (CRIAW), the National Organization of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of Canada (NOIVMWC), Media Watch, Womenspace, the Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA), the National Association of ...
11 October 2004
October 11, 2004
How a Wee Campaign Nudged a Law of Science
The principle of erosion holds that over time, forces of nature will erode even the most calloused of surfaces. Soft layers erode faster than hard layers. But the world and its atmosphere are unpredictable, the barriers to women’s equality can hardly be ...
11 October 2004
October 11, 2004
The Arbitrariness of Ontario’s Arbitration Act: Examining the Impact on Women
In many parts of the world, religious groups have been working to implement policies that would influence the manner in which society is run. It has been argued that this use of religion for political influence threatens to undermine hard won entitlements ...
11 October 2004
October 11, 2004
Jurisdiction of Maternity and Parental Benefits Lies with the Provinces / Les prestations de materni
On January 27, 2004, the Quebec Court of Appeal ruled that the maternity benefits and parental benefits provisions of the Employment Insurance Act encroach upon provincial jurisdiction and are beyond the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada. This decision calls for action ...
11 October 2004
October 11, 2004
LEAF and Women’s Economic Equality Rights: Reflections on a Pay Equity Case and an Equality-Rights Conference
On May 12th of this year, the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada to argue in support of the need to protect and advance women’s equality rights in the context of a pay equity ...
11 October 2004
October 11, 2004
Law Students Research Legal Aid
A team of Pro Bono Students Canada from the Law Faculty at the University of Ottawa will be monitoring different provincial legal aid regimes as they relate to family law. After a decade of cuts and restrictions, there is definitely a legal ...
11 October 2004
October 11, 2004
Women’s Voices in the Struggle for Family Law Legal Aid: A Matter of Justice
“It is a matter of justice! Legal Aid for women is not only a matter of equality as it is one of rights.” – Claire L’Heureux-Dubé, recently retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Many years ago, West Coast Legal Education ...
11 October 2004
October 11, 2004
Pay Attention to Pay Inequity
Despite over twenty-five years legislation, women living in Canada still earn less than men regardless of their occupation, age or education. On average, a woman earns 72.5 cents for every dollar that a man earns. This wage gap is even greater for ...
11 October 2004
October 11, 2004
Should Feminists Care About Equal Marriage for Same-Sex Couples?
Equal marriage for same sex couples developed as the wedge social issue in the June 2004 federal election. We witnessed Liberal politicians proudly waving the rainbow flag, a sharp contrast to a year earlier when most of them had trouble saying “lesbian ...
11 October 2004
October 11, 2004
Women’s Rights and Freedoms: 20 Years (In) Equality: NAWL & West Coast LEAF National Conference
West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund (West Coast LEAF) and the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) are hosting a national conference in Vancouver from April 28 to May 1, 2005 at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown Hotel. The Conference ...
8 October 2004
October 8, 2004
Letter to Irwin Cotler, Minister of Justice, on Custody and Access and the Reform of the Divorce Act
Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler has recognized on more than one occasion that “women’s rights are human rights”. Yet he was ready to consider re-introducing Bill C-22 to amend the Divorce Act without any analysis whatsoever of the impact of proposed changes ...
1 September 2004
September 1, 2004
Volume 23, No. 2, Fall 2004 / Volume 23, No. 2, Automne 2004
Volume 23, No. 2, Fall 2004 Volume 23, No. 2, Automne 2004 Nothing ...
11 August 2004
August 11, 2004
Gender Sensitive Budget Policies
NAWL has called on the federal government to ensure that all women have access to decent housing, quality health care, adequate income security, improved maternity and parental benefits and universal, publicly funded childcare. These measures require federal funding. NAWL wrote to the ...
5 May 2004
May 5, 2004
Women’s Groups Say Feds Must Act Now on Pay Equity
OTTAWA – “The Federal government must act now and adopt legislation to guarantee pay equity for all women, as was recommended by the Pay Equity Task Force in the excellent report that it tabled today. Current pay equity provisions are just not ...
1 May 2004
May 1, 2004
Pay Equity Task Force Final Report 2004
The federal government appointed a Pay Equity Task Force that issued its Report in the May 2004. The Report recommends adopting a new, stand-alone pay equity law that will cover women, as well as workers of colour, Aboriginal workers and workers with ...
14 February 2004
February 14, 2004
Dear Prime Minister….
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. The Coalition for Women’s Equality sent this letter to the Right Honourable Paul Martin in response to his government’s initial Throne Speech on February 2, 2004 and after he responded to that speech in the ...
