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From YouTube: MARCH 5 2020 Statements Sonia Furstenau
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
5th Session
41st Parliament
A
Host
leader
third
party
of
a
speaker,
Super
Tuesday,
was
not
so
super
for
Elizabeth
Warren,
and
so
it
looks
as
though
the
US
Democratic
Party
will
get
to
choose
between
two
males
of
a
certain
age
for
their
presidential
candidate
and
then
choose
between
two
males
of
a
certain
age
for
their
president
same
old
same
old
here
in
Canada,
a
poll
last
year
indicated
that
19%
of
people
think
that
feminism
has
too
much
influence
in
Canadian
politics
there.
This
is
polling.
A
That
was
done
at
the
same
time
that
Canada
had
only
one
woman
amongst
13,
provincial
and
territorial
leaders
in
the
country
in
the
2019
federal
election,
a
record-setting
29
percent
of
MPs
elected
we're
women
at
the
rate
we're
going
it's
going
to
take
a
hundred
more
years
before
we
reach
parity.
Well,
women
are
underrepresented
in
office.
We
are
over-represented
in
other
ways.
A
More
than
1.9
million
women
in
Canada
live
on
a
low
income,
eighty-two
percent
of
sexual
assault
victims
under
18
years
old,
our
girls
and
over
six
thousand
women
and
children
sleep
in
shelters
on
any
given
night
because
it
isn't
safe
at
home.
These
datasets
are
not
disconnected
women.
Elected
to
office
bring
a
necessary
and
deeply
underrepresented
perspective
and
when
women
are
elected,
change
happens
in
Nevada,
the
first
female
majority
legislator
in
US
history
and
the
have
shown
that
the
laws
that
have
been
passed
very
much
demonstrate
this.
A
These
laws
include
protection
for
women,
firefighters,
a
requirement
that
companies
over
50
employees
pay
sick,
leave,
equal
pay
legislation
and
protection
of
women's
reproductive
rights.
The
Nevada
Legislature
also
introduced
a
series
of
laws
related
to
domestic
violence,
sexual
assault
and
sex
trafficking
that
were
passed
unanimously.