Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the invitation to appear before the committee. I am pleased to be here, to have the opportunity to present to you, and to respond to any questions the committee may have. In follow-up to my colleague's presentation, I will describe Health Canada's I

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll respond to the questions around violence against women. I specifically want to comment on the native women's shelter in Montreal as an example of our work in this area. When it became clear to us that that was an Aboriginal Healing Foundation proje

Status of Women committee  Yes. Going back to the resolution health support program and the mandates of Health Canada, we were able to assess the extent to which we could step in and provide ongoing support, but I appreciate that other services were not available. In terms of some of the other projects th

Status of Women committee  I would actually say that the Public Health Agency of Canada has a mandate for family violence and they do bring together all of the departments. I know the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs is involved in that work with the Public Health Agency. Indeed, my colleague her

Status of Women committee  Yes. We follow the policies of our Non-Insured Health Benefits Program. Room and board and other expenses are covered in addition to transportation costs.

Status of Women committee  I do not know the number of people we contacted. However, we do have statistics showing that our program served substantially more people this year. We have noticed a significant increase in the number of people supported. I will look for that figure in my documents in a moment.

Status of Women committee  I agree. I share your point of view. I can tell you that, in Rankin Inlet, we established a contribution agreement thanks to the project that was already funded by the Foundation. This year, through a contribution agreement, we provided $1 million to the Pulaarvik Kablu Friendsh

Status of Women committee  The section of the settlement agreement that speaks to this says: Canada agrees that it will continue to provide existing mental health and emotional support services and agrees to make those services available to those who are resolving a claim through the Independent Assessm

Status of Women committee  May I add to that, please? We would also want to recognize that in the programs that Health Canada funds in addition to the Indian residential schools resolution health support program, we also fund over $200 million annually for things such as addictions treatment centres and m

Status of Women committee  This $200 million annually is outside of the settlement agreement. These are programs that have been in place previous to the settlement agreement and that continue beyond the settlement agreement.

Status of Women committee  From Health Canada's perspective, I would share two examples of how we work with Justice and the judicial system. Under the government's national anti-drug strategy, there are numerous forums where directors general and directors from the Departments of Justice and Public Safet

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the questions. Would you like me to take a stab at Ms. Mathyssen's question?

Status of Women committee  Okay, quickly, there is no doubt that the determinants of health have a very important impact on health. That's very clear. There have been studies on that, and certainly Health Canada is very seized with the fact that we don't control the determinants of health. They're outside

Status of Women committee  Yes--about violence against women. I would be misleading this committee if I left you with the impression that there's no strategy on family violence. The Government of Canada, through the Public Health Agency, has a fairly robust strategy on family violence. However, that is not

Status of Women committee  The last question was on evaluation of the results of the Healing Foundation.