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Wilf Day
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posted 13 September 2005 01:16 AM      Profile for Wilf Day     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Status of Women Canada, the feds, are holding a Gender Equality Consultation:
quote:
There are four parts to the questionnaire:

In part one we seek your views on proposals for a long-term strategy for gender equality
In part two, we ask about what issues matter to you most
In part three we ask for some information about you and
In part four you may, if you wish, share any other ideas on what could be done to improve gender equality and the situation of women and girls in Canada.
We estimate it will take about 20 minutes to complete this questionnaire.



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posted 13 September 2005 06:26 PM      Profile for raccunk     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thanks for the link Wilf Day.
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Tehanu
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posted 14 September 2005 10:12 PM      Profile for Tehanu     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I took the survey and thought it was fine, although far too general. There wasn't anything about LBT women, for example. One of the things I emphasized was that a good way to ensure that women are considered when policy is being made is to have (gasp) more women at the table! Particularly in terms of political positions.

How about increasing party subsidies for those that have gender parity among candidates? Or those that have gender parity among elected MPs or MPPs? Or, even, examining barriers to women in politics? Whodda thunk?


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Wilf Day
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posted 15 September 2005 12:35 AM      Profile for Wilf Day     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Tehanu:
How about increasing party subsidies for those that have gender parity among candidates?


The New Brunswick Commission on Legislative Democracy recommended at p. 99:
quote:
Financial Incentives for Parties

The Commission believes that parties should receive additional funding through the annual allocation they are entitled to under the Political Process Financing Act if they nominate more women. Under this allocation formula, parties are entitled to an annual monetary amount for each vote they won during the previous provincial election. . . This amount is . . . currently $1.73 per valid vote. . . The Commission recommends that the amount per valid vote be increased by $1.00 for parties . . . if women constitute at least 35 percent of their candidates in a general election.

Also:

The Electoral System

The Commission believes that changing from the single member plurality system to our proposed regional mixed member proportional system is essential to electing more women to the New Brunswick legislature. We further believe that no significant improvement in the level of women’s representation is likely to occur in the near future under the current electoral system.



And Quebec's draft Election Reform bill provides, at s. 115 - 118 that parties receive annual funding totalling 50 cents per voter divided between them in proportion to the percentage of votes received by their candidates in the last general election, but a party gets an extra 5% if it ran at least 30% women in the last election, 10% if it ran at least 35%, and 15% if it ran at least 40% women.

It also provides at s. 559 to 562 that a party will receive a subsidy of 50% of election expenses of candidates who get at least 15% of the vote, but if it runs at least 30% women this will increase to 65% of the expenses for any woman who is elected, and if it runs at least 35% women it will be 70%, and if it runs more than 40% women it will be 75%.


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Tehanu
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posted 19 September 2005 09:53 PM      Profile for Tehanu     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hey, I didn't know about these initiatives! Cool!

What's your sense of them getting passed?


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