As a lifelong Canadian, I recall when Ms. Thomani was the leader of NAC, the National Action Council on the Status of Women, in the early 90s.
I thought it was wonderfully appropriate when her angry diatribes, frequently directed against the federal government, finally provoked that same government, which had been providing the lion’s share of funding for the NAC, to withdraw that funding. It was high time that those chickens came home to roost and for it to happen on Ms. Thobani’s watch seemed especially just.
I hadn’t heard of her since then. It is distressing, but not surprising, to hear that she is still the same hate-filled radical she was then.
I wish you all the very best of luck, Ms. Chesler, in your efforts with regards to a feminism we can all believe in, where universalism, not racism, religion, or ideology drive the quest to treat all human beings decently and equally.
