Status of Women Committee on Nov. 20th, 2014

Evidence of meeting #36 for Status of Women in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was data.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Promising Practices to Prevent Violence Against Women

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Linda Savoie Senior Director General, Women's Program and Regional Operations Directorate, Status of Women Canada

Cathy Connors Director, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada

Kimberly Elmslie Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada

Pamela Arnott Director and Senior Counsel, Policy Centre for Victim Issues, Department of Justice

Gillian Blackell Senior Counsel and Coordinator, Children's Law and Family Violence Policy Unit, Department of Justice

Kathy AuCoin Chief, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics , Statistics Canada

10:35 a.m.

NDP

The Chair NDP Hélène LeBlanc

Mrs. Truppe, you have the floor.

10:35 a.m.

Conservative

Susan Truppe Conservative London North Centre, ON

Madam Chair, if we're going to discuss committee business, I move that we go in camera.

10:35 a.m.

NDP

The Chair NDP Hélène LeBlanc

We will now vote to decide whether we are going to sit in camera.

(Motion agreed to)

10:35 a.m.

NDP

The Chair NDP Hélène LeBlanc

I would like to take a few seconds to thank our guests for their very important testimony. It gets our new study off to a good start.

I am going to suspend the meeting for a few minutes before we move in camera.

[Proceedings continue in camera]