Status of Women committee  Yes, they are.

Status of Women committee  There was the thing about the disaggregation of data. We have to have a better handle on that. There are programs, the aboriginal procurement strategy, for example. Are young aboriginal women accessing the funds that are in there? We don't know. The information is there, but who'

Status of Women committee  Well, I was going to say microfinancing as well, but that has been touched upon. These were raised as well to government by NWAC a while back. I think we don't have a good handle on measuring the success rates of aboriginal women or girls in the economic development milieu. I t

Status of Women committee  It is.

Status of Women committee  I'll just give you a little bit of history, because I was the first health director of the Native Women's Association of Canada back in 2005. We applied for and received funding from the first nations and Inuit health branch of Health Canada to delve into different health topics,

Status of Women committee  Not at all. No.

Status of Women committee  Definitely.

Status of Women committee  On April 13, we got word from Health Canada's First Nations and Inuit Health Branch that our health funding would be cut by 100%. One that particularly touches on the topic of today is that we had an aboriginal health initiative program, where we introduced the different health c

Status of Women committee  For just that program or the whole cut?

Status of Women committee  About one-fifth of our funding was cut, which would be between $700,000 and $800,000. It fluctuated from year to year. The most we received from the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch was about $1 million, and then it would fluctuate depending upon what our projects were.

Status of Women committee  I think there's not enough focus on girls. There is focus on women—though not enough as well—but there should be added focus on reaching the girls from maybe the age of 12 onwards to inform them about the opportunities that exist for them and where they can go to receive informat

Status of Women committee  Exactly. There's a lot of—

Status of Women committee  I beg your pardon?

Status of Women committee  Exactly.

Status of Women committee  That's correct. NWAC, through Health Canada funding—which was cut just a couple of weeks ago—convened a very successful career fair for young girls. I think more than a hundred attended. It was in the west someplace—I think in Saskatchewan. Many of them came, and they learned o