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House Hansard - 234

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 18, 2023 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 234 - Oct/18/23
Hon. Carolyn Bennett (Toronto—St. Paul's, Lib.)
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Mr. Speaker, this morning, on this Persons Day, I walked over to the truly powerful Famous Five statue in front of the Senate building to reflect on the progress made since these pioneering women fought to have women declared as persons. I think they would be proud. There is now parity of women in our Senate, parity of women in cabinet and the House of Commons is 30% women. Women have pensions, medicare, child care and dental care. There are almost 60% of women in the workforce, the highest in the OECD. We have made serious efforts to address violence against women, the original goal of the Famous Five and their temperance movement colleagues. Today we remember the clarion call of the formidable Nellie McClung, “...never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.” Today we honour and thank the Famous Five. We will get the equality thing done and let the misogynists howl.
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