“I desire to remove the misapprehension that a woman cannot engage in public affairs without deserting the home and neglecting the duties that motherhood imposes upon her,” she told her new colleagues on February 25, 1930. “Sometimes I am amused to hear this argument on the lips of certain fathers who are utterly indifferent to the upbringing of their sons and leave that solemn obligation, to the mother alone. A man is supposed to devote his time to the material needs of his family. No one disputes his right to participate in public affairs. But does such activity relieve him of his duties towards his children? Yet we constantly hear mothers complain of the husband’s indifference about the supervision and guidance of his sons.”

You can read Senator Wilson’s entire address at the link below.

https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_SOC1604_01/19Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist.  He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.  A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.