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Status of Women committee  I'm not aware of anybody out there. What we're doing at Status of Women is saying that it's a mandatory tool here, one that every employee, whether they're in the corporate sector or in communications or policy or programs, has to take as part of being at Status of Women Canada.

May 12th, 2015Committee meeting

Meena Ballantyne

May 12th, 2015Committee meeting

Meena Ballantyne

Status of Women committee  I think it's contributing to awareness of how you analyze policies and programs, how you ask the right questions, how you move beyond only the sex and gender issues. I did bring something that I thought might be of interest to you. For example, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research has a little postcard on sex and gender.

May 12th, 2015Committee meeting

Meena Ballantyne

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the question. I think everybody knows that the women's program is our grants and contributions funding, which is the majority of the funding for Status of Women Canada. Approximately $19 million has been spent over the past few years, and this is the plan for the coming year as well.

May 12th, 2015Committee meeting

Meena Ballantyne

Status of Women committee  Perhaps I'll turn it over to Linda Savoie, who is the director general of the women's programs, to give you a little more detail on that.

May 12th, 2015Committee meeting

Meena Ballantyne

Status of Women committee  I don't have the exact number for the continuous intake, but what we do is look at emerging issues and work with communities to respond to those. For example, on skilled trades we're doing an invitational call right now for women in skilled trades and how to promote more women in those fields.

May 12th, 2015Committee meeting

Meena Ballantyne

May 12th, 2015Committee meeting

Meena Ballantyne

Status of Women committee  As the minister was saying earlier, every policy program or legislative initiative goes through a GBA analysis, which is part of the cabinet process. So every MC or Treasury Board submission to cabinet has to have that. Then Finance Canada also looks at their own analysis for GBA.

May 12th, 2015Committee meeting

Meena Ballantyne

Status of Women committee  Yes. The online course was developed in 2012 and we've gone through a couple of revisions of it. That's one avenue, as the minister said, that we're using to try to get more and more people in the federal public service, as well as in provincial public services, taking it. But in addition to that, we're working with the Canada School of Public Service to make it part of the core curriculum for people working in programs and at the policy level so that it's mainstreamed.

May 12th, 2015Committee meeting

Meena Ballantyne

Status of Women committee  I just want to clarify that it's not a reduction of the budget of Status of Women Canada, by any means. What we've done is to transfer resources from one area of the organization to another.

May 12th, 2015Committee meeting

Meena Ballantyne

Status of Women committee  To the internal services. That is because when we looked at the past five years, we noticed that the spending we've done has been in the internal services, which also advances the equality priority as well.

May 12th, 2015Committee meeting

Meena Ballantyne

Status of Women committee  They would be GBA; commemorative events; the Strong Girls, Strong World event last October, which the minister was talking about; the Women Entrepreneurs Forum: the It Starts with One campaign as well; and also for modernizing our website. We noticed that in the past five years what we spent was very different from what we forecasted at the beginning of the year.

May 12th, 2015Committee meeting

Meena Ballantyne

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Minister. I think you're also asking about the $1 million.

May 12th, 2015Committee meeting

Meena Ballantyne