Free Trade and Canadian Feminism: The Case of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women

Sylvia Bashevkin

Canadian Public Policy, 1989, vol. 15, issue 4, 363-375

Abstract: Existing studies of the free trade debate have overlooked the intervention of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) on this issue. NAC's participation reflected an extension of its policy focus beyond conventional "women's issues," notably legal rights and social policy questions, toward an integration of these concerns with broader economic policy. As well, NAC's strategy on the free trade question represented a change from its earlier emphasis upon cooperative relations with the federal government in order to obtain reforms on "women's issues." This article examines the background to NAC's participation on the free trade debate, its main criticisms of free trade and, most importantly, the potential consequences of this policy intervention for both NAC and the larger Canadian women's movements.

Date: 1989
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