Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to start by apologizing to the committee for not being able to appear when I was invited in December, due to a death in the family. I thank the committee for its understanding. I'm pleased to appear here before you today, particularly on the subje

Status of Women committee  I'm just doing an opening introduction. You had those last week on the deck for the programs.

Status of Women committee  Sébastien will begin in just a moment on page 4.

Status of Women committee  No, no, that's okay. I will now ask Sébastien Goupil to provide the committee members with an overview of our strategic policy activities, including international as well as gender-based analysis efforts. Nanci-Jean will then make a short presentation. Thank you.

Status of Women committee  Yes. Departments were asked as part of the departmental action plan on gender-based analysis to implement structures, procedures, processes, and policies within their own departments in order to ensure that they institutionalize GBA as an ongoing and sustainable practice within

Status of Women committee  Certainly.

Status of Women committee  There has been no change on the partnership fund. There is still a community fund and a partnership fund. I would need more clarification on the reduction in budgets, because there has not been a reduction in the budget.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  In terms of working with them to institutionalize the practice, the report from the OAG and the departmental action plan indicated that we should be working with approximately six departments per year. Some years we go beyond the six. The first year we had seven or eight. Beyond

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. We're happy to return to finish what we had begun last week. In terms of the presentations, I will ask Sébastien Goupil to continue the presentation from slide 7. I hope that everyone kept the copies that we had distributed. We will then ask N

Status of Women committee  Yes, we were really excited with that call, as the minister said. We weren't sure what kind of response rate we would get, because often in small communities there isn't a lot of NGO capacity to be able to develop proposals and access government funding. So that's why we used the

Status of Women committee  And we do have projects across the country, which is wonderful.

Status of Women committee  Actually, we don't work directly with schools or school boards. You have to have a non-governmental organization within the community that works with the school. One of the things we've also implemented with our calls is a requirement for the organizations to share the work they'

Status of Women committee  There's no shortage of organizations and communities that know there's an issue to be addressed. There's a problem in the community. What's difficult is trying to get the right people at the same table. It's hard to pool resources, effort, and knowledge in a way that allows us to

Status of Women committee  The mandate of our organization has not changed since the 1970s, when, as a result of the order in council, our organization was established. The mandate is to co-ordinate policies that relate to equality in the federal family. The women's program has terms and conditions. Any t