Status of Women committee  Yes. It may take just a little bit longer, a couple of hours.

Status of Women committee  Are you talking about the It Starts With One program?

Status of Women committee  We are back next week with Minister Hajdu, as well, on Tuesday. It's up to you. We really look forward to working with this committee, so thank you so much for your time.

Status of Women committee  We are always trying to look at best practices and trying to make sure that people across the country know about them so that they're not reinventing the wheel. For example, we put success stories on our website. We've taken projects, asked why they succeeded and what they did differently, and put them up on our website so that, hopefully, somebody in Newfoundland sees what somebody in B.C. is doing and can employ the same programs.

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely, and I think we have some really good projects in what constitutes healthy relationships, for example. Just having those kinds of conversations is useful, so that at a young age both girls and boys are able to say that it's not acceptable for him to treat me like this or for him to share my pictures on his cellphone without my consent.

Status of Women committee  Can I have a moment to add something that pertains to some of the other questions too? We're trying to empower women and girls to speak up and also to engage men and boys to say, “Don't be a bystander. Don't let somebody get away with this kind of behaviour.” The purpose of all these projects, whether it's in rural communities or projects with men and boys, is really to get a dialogue going about that issue and get some tools that will help people in their communities or in their interactions with each other in schools and their peer groups to be able to talk about these things.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely we've been looking at that. In fact, on our website we've created a business case to show the economic benefit of having women in some of these non-traditional jobs in the skilled trades and how companies and employers can remove or address the barriers when they're hiring women.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, yes. We're looking at that and we're working on a federal gender-based violence strategy. It's not necessarily a national strategy, because you don't want to duplicate what the provinces are doing. They're best placed to do what they're doing. They know their priorities.

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, I can't tell you about the discussions under way, but we're hopeful you'll find out soon. There is definitely a recognition. You'll hear our minister speak very eloquently, from her experience on the front lines running a shelter, about there being no question that there is a need for shelters and services when we have about 500 women and their children being turned away from a shelter every day.

Status of Women committee  Yes, it's something that we've tried to clarify, because since 1976 the mandate has been exactly what you've seen. In our report on plans and priorities, which lays out the objectives, the word “equality” had been used, and it's still there because that's what we're doing all this for.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  We've been working on this since November, I guess, in terms of putting it together. You're absolutely right, there are very many pieces in the federal government that are working on domestic violence or gender-based violence. We're working with our federal partners to have an assessment of what is out there in terms of legislation, strategy, framework, and funding programs.

Status of Women committee  We don't target our programming to age groups. We basically target it generally. I would invite my colleagues to speak. We fund various projects that bring along women and girls. An example is our email blasts to schools and others. We work with high schools, but we don't go into elementary schools.

Status of Women committee  I'll invite my colleague Linda to tell you about it.

Status of Women committee  We're not doing very well. I'll go back to the figures. We rank 30th out of 145 countries on the World Economic Forum's 2015 global gender gap report. We are low there. I know that countries are playing with legislation. You're right about Norway, and Germany just came out with legislation for women on boards.