Status of Women committee  They have not necessarily been reopened, as some of the service points were never closed.

Status of Women committee  Some offices were consolidated. For instance, in Vancouver, we had an office that was more of a service point. It was merged with the Edmonton office. We also had a service point in Quebec City that was merged with the one in Montreal. So there was some consolidation.

Status of Women committee  That is beyond my purview, as the Women's Program has nothing to do with policy. My colleague Sébastien Goupil could talk to you about policy research in more detail next week.

Status of Women committee  His name is Sébastien Goupil. I think he will be testifying before this committee on March 7.

Status of Women committee  Virtually all of our funding goes to non-profit organizations. To my knowledge, over the last five or six years, only two projects provided funding to for-profit groups.

Status of Women committee  There were 2 out of nearly 500.

Status of Women committee  I am talking about projects for making score cards in order to identify the number of women and members of other minority groups who sit on the boards of directors of the country's 500 largest companies. In the other case, the funding went to a social enterprise that, unfortunate

Status of Women committee  Very much so.

Status of Women committee  For a group to just go out on a limb and fully dedicate a resource to developing a project, not knowing if it's perfectly aligned with what we would be seeking, involves risk for them, definitely, so the feedback we've received from groups since we first tried this blueprint proj

Status of Women committee  Yes. Of the seven themes on which we called for proposals in February 2011, we had three themes that specifically focused on economic prosperity. One was to increase the recruitment of women in non-traditional employment. One was to increase their retention in non-traditional emp

Status of Women committee  In a very broad-stroke nutshell, the types of results we're getting for girls are always related to creating conditions for future success. What that looks like is increased access for girls to information about healthy relationships. It looks like delivering workshops that devel

Status of Women committee  For those circumstances where we were referring to specific projects, we will; some were more general comments that relate to multiple projects. But we will make sure that we provide you with something useful.

Status of Women committee  I'll start with some of the key characteristics, and then I'll let Madame Martino give you some examples of actual components of those projects. The blueprints are very different from the approach of continuous intake. In February 2011 we sought out proposals under seven differe

Status of Women committee  Now, for aboriginal examples....

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, members of the committee, thank you. My name is Linda Savoie, and I am the Director General of the Women's Program and Regional Operations. I am joined by Pascale Robichaud, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Operations, and Victoria Martino, Senior Program and