Bring back core funding for women’s groups, say MPs as new report warns sector at risk of ‘financial devastation’

Close to 40 per cent of women-serving agencies couldn’t access any of the emergency COVID-19 government funding, a new report suggests.

Women and Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef, left, should advocate for the report's recommendations, say opposition critics, from left, Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu, NDP MP Lindsay Mathyssen, and Green Party MP Elizabeth May. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

December 16, 2020

Canada should return core funding to women’s groups, say MPs after a report warns the sector faces “financial devastation,” with organizations struggling to stay in operation under the weight of the pandemic’s gendered impact.

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