Status of Women committee  I think it depends on why they were removed from the home. It's difficult to say that's the sole reason.

Status of Women committee  I partly responded that we were working on income assistance reform, a movement to active measures that will help provide opportunities and training supports to transition women who may not be employable, as well as men, to employable status. That's one area where we're starting

Status of Women committee  Yes, we can provide the requests for information.

Status of Women committee  You also asked about the Hollow Water addiction centre in Manitoba. I'm not personally familiar with that centre. This is my second month in this position; however, I think we would look at that, see what that is, and see what's appropriate in terms of its providing services. We

Human Resources committee  Thank you. On the question of closing the funding gap for K-to-12, one of the things that our department has discovered is the issue of fair and equitable funding for first nations schools. This is one of the improvements we need to make, along with moving towards comparability

Human Resources committee  We are looking at comparability in funding as well as in programming efforts. We want children on reserve to be able to move back and forth between provincial schools and on-reserve schools so that they get the same education they would get off reserve. We are looking--

Human Resources committee  Those cases can arise. What I am pointing to is that children may go to school on reserve and then move or be relocated or attend off reserve. We want them to have the same level of education so that as they move to a provincial school they can be integrated into the same grade l

Human Resources committee  I'm not sure of the exact date, but my understanding is that it is ready to become available in the next couple of months.

Human Resources committee  I have to say I don't have exact information on work that's being done to deal with that issue. I do know we have the work of the K-to-12 panel that has been going across the country and listening to communities and experts in education on how to better deliver K-to-12. I would e

Human Resources committee  I'm not an expert in the education side of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, but I believe we could certainly find out whether some of our youth employment strategy initiatives that are focused on that age group support those kinds of experiences for later secon

Human Resources committee  I'm not sure what you're referring to, because you started with Attawapiskat. If you're talking about education and investments in education, we are looking across all of the jurisdictions to do comparisons between first nations education and how provinces fund the education.

Human Resources committee  I would have to get back to you on that. I don't have the details.

Human Resources committee  I can't answer in terms of reductions. I can certainly say that our intention in looking at K-to-12 education is to get to comparable outcomes and good outcomes on reserve. There are a number of ways we can do that, including partnerships with provinces and with first nations. We

Human Resources committee  In terms of what we've learned and what we know are some of the expectations of first nations communities, it would be being able to access skills training and development close to home or in their home communities, especially when they have other barriers that may not allow them

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I can answer on behalf of AANDC. Last year we completed an evaluation of our family violence prevention program, and that is actually available on our website. It looks at the effectiveness of our programming in the 41 shelters, as well as our prevention programming, and it made