Status of Women committee  We're ready for questions.

Status of Women committee  Thanks very much. I also have prepared shorter remarks because I think we want to engage in the discussion with people here in the room. I'm going to forewarn you that this will be a verbal presentation this morning, but we will send over our presentation as soon as it comes out of translation at our office.

Public Safety committee  In terms of the question of violence against women, the trade union movement has been actively involved in the struggle against violence against women. You will see that not just on December 6 but in terms of the work that we do, in terms of even our initial presentation—

Public Safety committee  Well, wait a minute. So violence against women gets 20 seconds?

Public Safety committee  You have to make sure that you talk—

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. On behalf of the 3.2 million members of the Canadian Labour Congress, I want to thank you for the opportunity to present our views on Bill C-391, an act that would repeal the long-gun registry. The CLC opposes Bill C-391. Our members have debated the issue of gun control at our conventions, and delegates have supported various forms of gun control in Canada, which led us to support the creation of the gun registry in 1995.

Public Safety committee  We're each going to be taking about five minutes. And I've never been called being on the “right side” before.

Public Safety committee  The correct side, maybe, but not the right.

Public Safety committee  Okay, that's great.

Human Resources committee  Thank you.

Human Resources committee  The question would sometimes come, though, from people who would say, “Look, we're busy dealing with the unemployed here, so we can give you that information later”. That's a reality: those folks are working on a volunteer basis.

Human Resources committee  We have a number of action centres that are done through our affiliated unions. Some of them you would know about. For example, the Canadian Auto Workers has a number of action centres. As well, we work very closely with the United Way, so we tend to have shared labour spots with United Way agencies so that people are working in that sort of situation.

Human Resources committee  I know that our affiliated unions would have that. It's a question that we've never been asked here, certainly, and that's something we could explore. But unions that are actually engaged in the delivery of the service would certainly know that because they would know what kinds of dollars they're putting into it and also what help has been given, as Sylvain says, on a volunteer basis.

Human Resources committee  We could see what they might have available.

Human Resources committee  That's always a possibility.