It lobbies the Government of Canada in favour of legislation to promote what it believes to be the Judeo-Christian-Islamic model of family life, and to support homemaking.
[2] In January 1983, Judy Erola, the federal cabinet minister for the status of women, proposed scrapping the tax exemption for dependent spouses, including mothers at home raising young children.
[4] The year following their formation, the group held its first national conference, claiming to have 20,000 members, though this could not be verified.
They promoted male-led, single-breadwinner families, and believed that women should be homemakers, mothers and wives.
[3] Their views and beliefs greatly differed from the stance taken by the National Action Committee on the Status of Women and its umbrella organizations, and the group argued against the equality guarantees already enacted in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:[8] they denounce the equal rights clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and feminist movements and organizations, and they argue that government spending and funding of these feminist organizations is undermining traditional gender and family relations.
[3] 1987 its president Lynne Scime stated that "REAL women want to look at issues such as how a woman can pick a husband to fulfill her needs".
[3] Other viewpoints they oppose include programs to reduce family violence, which they claim encourage hatred toward men; no-fault divorce; and human rights protections for gays and lesbians.
[3] The overarching goal of REAL Women is to support the way of life traditionally associated with the 1950s nuclear family and arch-conservative values.
[8] REAL Women of Canada endorsed Derek Sloan as candidate in the 2020 Conservative leadership election.