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Larissa Schneider is interning with the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women during the final semester of her master’s program in global governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ont.

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    Reduced, refused, reignited

    In 2006, the Conservative government cut the funding of Status of Women Canada (SWC) by 38 per cent, to the tune of $5 million, in a move to enhance “fiscal responsibility.”