Annotation:
This document identifies and analyzes some of the major problems with Canada's National Response to the UN Questionnaire on the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action. The Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) indicates where Canada includes programs that have been cut back, exaggerates its efforts, lists initiatives that it has no intention of implementing, omits key facts, and makes claims that are misleading or simply un1. Part two examines structural problems in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action. These problems include the marginalisation of women's organisations, the marginal position of Status of Women Canada, problems created by the division of powers, and lack of understanding on the part of decision-makers of the links between women's vulnerability to poverty and other equality issues.