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“Yes, being in a female dominated field, I do know what it means to be marginalized. “

The really ugly part is they’ve actually done multiple sociological studies on this, and guess what the result is? Men in female-dominated fields aren’t marginalized at all; they get special treatment and are fast-tracked to the top, getting more credit for their work, faster promotions, and greater pay and benefits than their female colleagues.

The problem is corporate power. Harper is a pawn or puppet of corporate power in the same way Obama is. But you know, the NDP isn’t going to save you, at this point. Your security and surveillance state is as advanced as ours. And if this new anti-terrorism law passes, in some ways it will be even worse. I wouldn’t call it Republican. I’d call it corporate… that’s how we’ve seen the kind of devolution of Canadian politics, rolling backwards, which Harper has exemplified. But I don’t play the game of focusing on personalities, because if you  focus on personalities, you ignore the structures of power and how they work. This is a pattern we’re familiar with in the U.S. It (the de-funding of health care) isn’t as has advanced as the States but your healthcare system is woefully underfunded, and we’re watching one of the great university systems in the industrialized world get destroyed by corporate money, making a college education harder and harder for people with little means. The destruction of your manufacturing base. There’s all kind of activities (in Canada) that replicate what has happened in the United States.