Evidence of meeting #40 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 children.
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10:40 a.m.
Executive Director, Armagh House
We have to fundraise about $250,000 for the year. That's the 50%.
10:40 a.m.
Conservative
Stella Ambler Conservative Mississauga South, ON
Oh, that's the 50%. Thank you.
How much of it does Walk a Mile in Her Shoes—the one event that's held in the spring of every year—raise? How much does it raise?
10:40 a.m.
Executive Director, Armagh House
We've actually just done an evaluation of that. It raises annually approximately $20,000.
10:40 a.m.
Conservative
Stella Ambler Conservative Mississauga South, ON
I know that you involve the Peel Regional Police, the firefighters, the paramedics. I guess those are all essential, because they are your stakeholders, if you will, the people you deal with all the time. But who else is involved? We are talking about links to other stakeholder groups.
10:40 a.m.
Executive Director, Armagh House
The purpose of the event is, first and foremost, to engage men and boys to help us raise awareness about violence against women in our local community. Men and boys will walk one mile in red high-heeled shoes and generate pledges to get support.
10:45 a.m.
Conservative
Stella Ambler Conservative Mississauga South, ON
We all agree that men are part of the solution.
You know, Ms. Martin, I appreciated your very succinct answer to that question. It's something that we all more or less know but need to hear. Canadians need to know that this is the issue; that it's a power imbalance, that it's about inequity, and that we're not going to fix this problem until we recognize that.
We all appreciate that.
10:45 a.m.
NDP
The Chair NDP Hélène LeBlanc
Thank you, Ms. Ambler.
I'm sorry, the clock is a little bit misleading, so we are running out of time.
I want to take the opportunity to thank immensely our witnesses today for all your input and for your recommendations.
I would like to remind members to submit your lists of five more witnesses by December 5 at four o'clock.
We have a nice meeting set up for next Tuesday at the same place and same time.
Thank you very much.
The meeting is adjourned.