L\u2019ANFD a demand\u00e9 au gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral d\u2019assurer que toutes les femmes ont acc\u00e8s \u00e0 un logement d\u00e9cent, \u00e0 des services de sant\u00e9 de qualit\u00e9, \u00e0 une s\u00e9curit\u00e9 du revenu ad\u00e9quate, \u00e0 des prestations de maternit\u00e9 et des prestations parentales am\u00e9lior\u00e9es et \u00e0 des services de garde \u00e0 l\u2019enfance soutenus par un financement public. L\u2019ensemble de ces mesures implique un financement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral. L\u2019ANFD a \u00e9crit au ministre des Finances pour souligner l\u2019importance d\u2019\u00e9laborer des politiques fiscales qui tiennent compte des diff\u00e9rences entre les sexes.<\/p>\n
Cette lettre est disponible seulement en anglais.<\/em><\/p>\n Honourable Ralph Goodale Wednesday, August 11, 2004<\/p>\n Minister Goodale,<\/p>\n I am writing on behalf of the National Association of Women and the Law to congratulate you on your recent re-appointment to the Cabinet as Minister of Finance.<\/p>\n NAWL is a national non-profit organization that promotes women\u2019s equality rights through law reform. Over the last few years, NAWL has submitted extensive briefs to different federal departments\u2019, task forces and committees working on a host of issues that are relevant to ensuring women\u2019s equality, such as improving the Canadian Human Rights Act, improving legislative provisions on pay equity, reforming the Divorce Act provisions on custody and access and improving access to family law legal aid, for example. Through our work with other women\u2019s groups, we have been calling on the federal government to ensure that all women have access to decent housing, to quality health care, adequate income security, improved maternity and parental benefits and universal, publicly funded childcare.<\/p>\n Obviously, all these measure require federal funding and adequate budget allocations. NAWL has in the past submitted briefs and made presentations to the Finance Committee in the course of its\u2019 pre-budget consultations. However, we have been very disappointed to the lack of interest in assessing the impact of budget allocations and fiscal policies on women, despite the fact that many jurisdictions and international institutions are acknowledging the importance of developing gender sensitive budget policies.<\/p>\n We are writing to request a meeting with you to discuss our concerns and to discuss how your department could start using gender sensitive budget methodologies.<\/p>\n Yours truly,<\/p>\n Andr\u00e9e C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/p>\n For NAWL\u2019s Budget and Fiscal Policies Working Groups Co-Chairs c.c.: Madame Liza Frulla, Minister Responsible for the Status of Women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nMinister of Finance
\nHouse of Commons, Ottawa<\/p>\n
\nProfessor Kim Brooks, Law Faculty, University of British Columbia
\nProfessor Lisa Philipps, Law Faculty, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University<\/p>\n