Melinda, Malala and Me: a Peterborough Activist's Adventures with the Gender Council

Rosemary Ganley
The Peterborough Examiner
May 10, 2018

When I looked out the Greyhound bus window as we pulled in to the Ottawa bus station, and saw a neatly dressed man standing beside a fine car, holding a sign with my name on it in neat letters, I knew for sure I had arrived at big-shot status.

We 19 members of the Gender Equality Advisory council for the G7 meetings in Quebec in June were gathering for three days face-to-face for the first time.

Aside from the civil servants who live in Ottawa, I think I was travelling the shortest distance of the 19, who come from the U.K., Africa and Asia.

My friend Pat Parnall told me I really should have arrived at the Chateau Laurier Hotel by bike. My son's teenage students in B.C. were wowed at my ascendant position, and said "That is really dope!" (I offer you a new word which is replacing "cool" in young people's vocabulary.)
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