Status of Women committee  I have some recommendations, but I don't know if I have any more time.

Status of Women committee  Okay. I'll go for it. We've had some experience with delivering programs to girls. In particular, with our Youth Eco Internship Program, or YEIP, we've had incredible success focusing on girls and young women. We also think it's important to ensure that single-gender programs c

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the opportunity.

Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  We'll do our best. Thanks for inviting us to make this presentation today. I also appreciate Farrah being along with us. You may or may not know that the YW in our name stands for “Young Women”, and girls and young women are a strong focus for us at the YWCA of Canada. Across

Public Safety committee  I'm here to speak about Bill C-391.

Public Safety committee  What I can say is that the YWCA of Canada will be supportive of a registry that provides information to law enforcers where they're able to identify if there are issues in the home that can save women's lives. That's where we come from.

Public Safety committee  The YWCA is most concerned about saving women's lives. That's the perspective from which we speak. That is the experience we have, and it is an experience that goes across the country. What we have noticed in terms of statistics is that since the gun registry has been in place, w

Public Safety committee  Okay. We can send the answer in writing.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. My name is Paulette Senior. I'm the CEO of YWCA Canada, and I'm here today with my colleague, Ann Decter, who is our director of advocacy and public policy. Thank you for the opportunity to present our concerns today. We've been advised that YWCA Canada is the only n

Status of Women committee  Let me jump in. I think it serves to really silence the voices of women, particularly in those parts of the country where the voices cannot be heard because of lack of access to technology, for example, or lack of access to major urban centres, where it's easier to get in touch w

Status of Women committee  I don't understand how that helps democracy. To me, it seems that the ability and the opportunity for government and community to work together can only help the government of the day. To silence people means you're not really exercising or practising democratic access for people

Status of Women committee  We've completed two phases of the study.

Status of Women committee  For the second part of the study we got, I believe, two hundred and twenty-five from Status of Women Canada.

Status of Women committee  Yes.