Status of Women committee  Actually, in Quebec we funded a group called Femmes, Politique et Démocratie, which has been providing non-partisan training for women who are interested in politics, whether that's at the municipal or other levels. So we do have, on an ongoing basis, a number of projects that to

Status of Women committee  That's right.

Status of Women committee  That is grants and contributions money that is available for groups.

Status of Women committee  No, those would be operating funds. Our budgets are separate. Operating funds pay for our salary and our overhead. Grants and contributions goes in its entirety to groups and organizations. When I was referring to that $10 million, which was $12 million, $11 million, $10 million,

Status of Women committee  That's correct.

Status of Women committee  What you are describing is basically what the terms and conditions of our programs are, and terms and conditions evolve over time. We are here to implement them, not choose them. Yes, they have evolved over time. The program's been around for a long time, so there have been multi

Status of Women committee  The $10 million or $19 million is not allocated under either fund specifically, so our total funding envelope is unrelated to which mechanism we use to get the money out. Whether it was a community fund project or a partnership fund project was simply the mechanism that was used

Status of Women committee  No, it's really an increase. It's all women's programs funding. Grants and contributions for the agency were in the order of approximately $10 million and are now approximately $19 million, no matter what fund or mechanism.

Status of Women committee  I have data only back to—let me see—2005, I believe. In terms of grants and contributions, our budget was approximately $11 million back then. In 2006-07 it was close to $12 million, and it jumped in 2007-08 to $18 million, and went on and on.

Status of Women committee  That would be the project with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, the FCM...?

Status of Women committee  It's definitely a big investment of resources, particularly since organizations in the non-profit sector tend to have very few full-time employees and limited capacity to invest in non-essential services. Yes, the feedback I've been receiving from non-profits I have been visiting

Status of Women committee  One of the things I get the most is clarity. A lot of groups have stated that it's extremely helpful for them to know exactly what we're seeking. For instance, we want a gender-based analysis as part of their project. Another example is a knowledge-dissemination strategy. They ha

Status of Women committee  Are you talking about model projects? I apologize, but—

Status of Women committee  Through that initiative, we identified 65 projects that received funding. Fifteen of them are youth-related projects. We called for projects carried out by young women and aimed at addressing the issue of violence against women and girls. Those 15 projects are specifically focuse

Status of Women committee  Do you want to know how many projects, out of the 330, were focused on the economic issue or how many were focused on girls?