Wednesday, Nov. 25, 1992 — North Shore News - 9

Women’s figures a fiction

WHEN THE big referendum rumpus was poing on, one enough in 1972, when Ottawa do-

face kept popping up that | wanted to throw a boot at. d $20,000, (Trudeau's par-
story democracy, you know.)

belonged to Judy Redick, the president of the National ev ORe that head oa cited
Action Committee of the Status of Women. $540,071, or 78% on che NAC:
Rebick is she prime mover of budget. Special projects grants
one of the biggest fictions ever in- brought that up to $596,711.
flicted on an unsuspecting public. Dou Nice wark if you can get it.
NAC claims to represent be- 2 And if you are NAC you don I
tween three million and four mil- Golli ms have to try very hard to get it.
lion Canadian women when in According to REAL Women,
fact it represents no more than a : — who diligently track this stuff,
few thousand, most of whom are Ni : that’s because the Secretary of
just as left-wing baity as Rebick - ae : State’s Women’s Program is itself
is. thick with militant feminists and
But thanks to our lazy media left-wingers.
the NAC fairy story is believed. They determine who gets what
Perhaps because those same media and if your little gang is lesbian it
are now thick with professional doesn’t harm your application.
fems and other fools who never But REAL. Women has received
question the doings of the extreme only the smallest of grants even
left. (Rebick used to be a Com- a\s though it has 45,000 individual
munist party organizer, but that’s members, !t doesn’t meet the test
never held against her.) fe i : ; of left-wing orthodoxy, you
Four million? How many NAC know.
members do you know? if the ON THE OTHER HAND it’s true that government sup-
Rebick claim were true, about port for the NAC has been cut.
But it is still considerable.

every third Canadian woman Here are two laughable exam- ¢ : e
would belong. But members are ples: In the last five years the
harder to find than four-leafed Barbara McDougall is our organization has received : . ana lan

clovers. minister for external affairs. She $2,454,574, And that doesn’t in-

The truth sometimes peeps out belongs to the YWCA, and has clude what the Women’s Legal * ;
from the organization’s own been quoted as saying: Education and Action Fund — : ests e ers
publications. Lyan McDonald, “I joined the ‘Y’ to use the (LEAK sets - apout $3 million F ;
former NAC big-wig and NDP pool, not to have NAC speak for rom the feds and provinces since ' . .

” 1985. Three New Canadian Bestsellers Will

MP, stated in The Womanist in meh h Judy A B hy should th '
1990 that there were 2,600 names en there’s Judy Anderson. ut why should these peopte get Mak rea ifts This 4
on the NAC membership list. She’s a former president of REAL — anything at all? Canadaistheon- eG tG Holiday Season
In July 1992, membership Women, the group that stands for _—‘ty country in the world that gives
coordinator Monique Deveaux traditional family values and bit- money to such 4 cause.
said there were 1,500 names on it. terly opposes NAC and all its if the NAC really represents
Which would suggest that works. three to four million Canadian
membership is declining. She's a teacher in Ontario, and women, why docs it need any
—— = a — " — government funds at all?
if every one of the alleged
. members gave two bucks a year,
&G Why does it need any that would be $8,000,000. Yet
Lynn McDonaid has pointed out
that the NAC couldn’t even raise
government funds at all?99 $50,000. Not by passing the hat
round, anyway.
Which reminds me. Rebick gets
The ‘*names”’ do of course in- the Federation of Women Teach- $50,000 a yeur. Plus expenses that
clude member organizations and ers of Ontario belongs to the allow her to travel the country in
groups. Allegedly about 560 of NAC. So Mrs. Anderson counts style. Even the Indian chiefs don't
them. Pius ‘‘friends.”’ But in real- = as an NAC member too. Funny, have it better.
ity most of that is a phoney, too. no? To repeat: this story is lying
If you belong to the YWCA, To add insult to injury, the around waiting to be picked up
for instance, you are countcd as a NAC receives millions of dollars but the media aren't interested.
member because the YWCA from the federal government, But why wo Doesn't she
belongs. meaning from you. Yes, your tax represent up to four million Ca-
it’s the same if a woman is in a dollars are at work in Rebick's nadian women in $00 different
union that subscribes — whether great cause. groups? And isn't she as political-
she wants to be in the unicn or Crazy? Of course. But we live ly correct as can be?
not and even if she doesn't have in a crazy country, do we not? More next week.
the slightes: interest in the NAC. The process began modestly

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