Status of Women committee  Yes. Kathleen mentioned earlier that we are involved in areas of the National Aboriginal Women's Summit that look at key issues impacting on aboriginal women in Canada. Throughout this summit there will be various provinces at the table. We're looking at GBA, lands. We're looking

Status of Women committee  I know our office has taken a look at it in terms of a policy, and we've had input into that, but I can't say we've had input into the whole context. Your latter part of the question was whether government could use some parts of that?

Status of Women committee  We certainly want to add to that; it needs to have more of that cultural component. But it certainly serves to move some of these issues forward at this point.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for your question. If I could answer that, yes, the Department of Indian Affairs does have a GBA unit. We are in the early process of presenting our framework, so that's an opportunity. As I indicated earlier, we certainly want to share our framework and to meet with

Status of Women committee  Basically the reason they refused our proposal to date—and there is an opportunity to apply again—is that they wanted to see more long-term outcomes of how this would impact on first nations women in specific communities. We want to test this in pilot communities, but they wanted

Status of Women committee  Good morning. My name is Marie Frawley-Henry. I'm am the senior policy individual at the Assembly of First Nations. I just wanted to comment on that. We've had training within the Assembly of First Nations; as our chair, Kathleen McHugh, has mentioned, we do not have the resourc

Status of Women committee  If I could add to that, the Assembly of First Nations, as Kathleen indicated, has developed a framework. That framework is a starting point, but we certainly need to expand on it. It provides certain key questions. We've developed a set of questions that are more culturally relev

Status of Women committee  We certainly don't have the capacity right now, but this obviously is the plan. This is why we want to share this plan with all federal departments, and with all governments. We want to present to many of these committees, and future committees, so that these messages and these s