REAL Women Of Canada — Strong Even Without Government Funding

The REAL Women of Canada got some recognition from Barbara Kay:

Until REAL Women began, no one in Canada questioned the feminist claim that all women shared a commonality of experience, even though it should have been obvious that feminist activists were mainly speaking for an elite, urban, liberal enclave of women from the same socio-economic background as themselves.

From Day One of its existence, feminists portrayed REAL Women as Stepford wives, intellectual hicks in thrall to the patriarchy. Yet, in the course of its work, REAL Women carried out groundbreaking research that, amongst other successes here and internationally, led to the happy demise of the federal government’s odiously discriminatory Court Challenges Program in 2006.

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Remember all those feminists crying foul about last year's cuts to the "status of women"? As it turned out, even a slightest cut (some 10% out of ~$200M budget) was enough for some SOW-supported organizations to close their doors. Well, here's an organization that hasn't received a dime from the public purse since the day it was founded. And yet somehow the REAL Women have managed to keep their organization going for quarter of a century, growing their membership to 55,000 strong. I believe, when it comes to the question - who is there actually representing women - those facts speak for themselves...