Status of Women committee  Preference? No. We did a call on violence, and there were four sub-components of that call that we wanted to address. One of them was engaging men and boys to end violence. Another one was to address issues of violence within high-risk neighbourhoods—

Status of Women committee  I would just like to say that—and I heard him mention it again recently in New York at the UNCSW—one of our key partners in Canada on engaging men and boys is the White Ribbon Campaign in the person of Todd Minerson because he's such a great leader for that organization. He men

Status of Women committee  Yes, it was a five-year agreement for $5 million.

Status of Women committee  My response was specifically to the question of the inquiry and that it is an inquiry on the policing response to the situation. Following the end of the Sisters in Spirit project, Status of Women Canada funded two subsequent projects with NWAC to continue some of the work to bu

Status of Women committee  With NWAC? It's a project called Evidence to Action to end violence against aboriginal women. It's a $1.8 million project. It has a number of sub-activities but its main function is to look at some of the root causes that have led women to be vulnerable to violence and try to add

Status of Women committee  For the time being what I can say is we will be following the work of the committee with a great level of interest. To determine what our role will be I don't think is up to us but up to the parliamentary committee to decide.

Status of Women committee  Just to clarify, we don't put in projects. We respond to projects that are submitted by organizations.

Status of Women committee  Leadership is one of the three priorities for Status of Women. We look at leadership in different contexts. Your needs in the area of leadership are dependent on your starting point. For young girls, for example, leadership was one of the two focuses in the girls' call we had i

Status of Women committee  Economic security? Again, the projects are very different. They are just as different as there are differences in women and girls in Canada. Economic security for one individual may be financial literacy. For another individual, it may be targeting non-traditional kinds of emplo

Status of Women committee  There are groups that offer that as part of their response. We don't go out and do financial literacy.

Status of Women committee  What they do is provide us with an analysis of the community needs. They tell us what the community issues are.

Status of Women committee  The women they are wanting to assist. Usually they have a defined population they want to target. Then, they will outline the response, how they believe they can address those needs, and that response could be financial literacy.

Status of Women committee  I'm sure. I can't think of exactly the names of the projects. They do basic life skills in some of the projects, depending on the situation of the population they are dealing with.

Status of Women committee  Are you talking about a specific project?

Status of Women committee  I would not be at liberty to say.