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Green Party MP Jenica Atwin and NDP MP Lindsay Mathyssen look on as Conservative MP Karen Vecchio speaks during a news conference on May 28, 2020 in Ottawa.
“To have to go and speak with these women and girls and let them know they may no longer be able to come here for service leads them back to only one person, and that’s their trafficker,” Walker said. This has left a gap in funding for some of the organizations that operated under the previous program, with no clear idea of when new money will be made available.
The letter was also signed by every opposition member of the Commons status of women committee and the MPs with organizations in their ridings affected by the funding change.
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