Status of Women committee  I can answer on that from the health perspective, and will do so. The significant funding that I'm aware of is that when the Mental Health Commission of Canada was created in 2007, I believe the following year they received $10 million. Perhaps it was more than that, and I shou

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the question. As I mentioned, we spend $200 million per year on our other mental health and addiction programs. These programs will continue to be available in the future.

Status of Women committee  Exactly.

Status of Women committee  That is the money we have to deal with the situation. I should mention that the aboriginal youth suicide prevention program was renewed this year. This program was to have ended in 2010, but it was renewed. Our addiction and addiction treatment centre program, as well as our co

Status of Women committee  Our programs deal with mental health and addiction.

Status of Women committee  The funds are not explicitly allocated to fighting violence against women, but we know that a great deal of violence occurs when people are intoxicated.

Status of Women committee  We have not calculated the amount, but we could.

Status of Women committee  There are programs specifically for women funded under the annual $200,000 budget. These programs address the shock you mentioned and fund treatment centres designed specifically for women.

Status of Women committee  Just on the matter of statistics related to suicides, first of all, the overall national averages I'm working with are not on the same scale as has just been described.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the questions. Would you like me to take a stab at Ms. Mathyssen's question?

Status of Women committee  Okay, quickly, there is no doubt that the determinants of health have a very important impact on health. That's very clear. There have been studies on that, and certainly Health Canada is very seized with the fact that we don't control the determinants of health. They're outside

Status of Women committee  Yes--about violence against women. I would be misleading this committee if I left you with the impression that there's no strategy on family violence. The Government of Canada, through the Public Health Agency, has a fairly robust strategy on family violence. However, that is not

Status of Women committee  The last question was on evaluation of the results of the Healing Foundation.

Status of Women committee  This $200 million annually is outside of the settlement agreement. These are programs that have been in place previous to the settlement agreement and that continue beyond the settlement agreement.

Status of Women committee  From Health Canada's perspective, I would share two examples of how we work with Justice and the judicial system. Under the government's national anti-drug strategy, there are numerous forums where directors general and directors from the Departments of Justice and Public Safet