Canadian identity, when distinguishing its progression changed positively during the late 1940s and 1980s when Madeleine Parent fought to ensure that women’s rights will be respected and upheld. Thus, founding The National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) with many other feminists. Along with the NAC, she was a member of many other important committee such as first nations committees. Firstly, she was an important member of the Native Women committee whose main focus was to aid the general population of the Natives. Since the natives at this time experienced a loss of territory, culture, identity as well as sexism. Madeleine Parent worked on many controversial issues such as "The Indian Act […], it was a constitutional act which