OTTAWA — Dozens of advocates for women and LGBTQ+ people in Canada and abroad are demanding clarity from the Carney government on its message shift on feminism.

In an open letter co-ordinated by Oxfam Canada, 92 organizations and 162 individuals say they’re deeply concerned by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent statement that Canada supports equality but no longer has a feminist foreign policy.

“Anti-rights actors are organizing and looking to roll back gains and make future progress more difficult. Women, girls and gender-diverse people are looking to Canada for support,” reads the letter, dated Monday.

“To back away from this position of leadership at a time of dramatic global rollbacks sends the wrong message to the world.”

Carney told reporters last month that while Canada no long

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