Status of Women committee  Promotion is done in a number of ways through the women's program; we have various levers. If the project does not deal with harm done specifically to women or with women's issues, it will not be funded under our program. There are commemorative events. The purpose of commemorat

Status of Women committee  Yes, we were really excited with that call, as the minister said. We weren't sure what kind of response rate we would get, because often in small communities there isn't a lot of NGO capacity to be able to develop proposals and access government funding. So that's why we used the

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. We're happy to return to finish what we had begun last week. In terms of the presentations, I will ask Sébastien Goupil to continue the presentation from slide 7. I hope that everyone kept the copies that we had distributed. We will then ask N

Status of Women committee  In terms of working with them to institutionalize the practice, the report from the OAG and the departmental action plan indicated that we should be working with approximately six departments per year. Some years we go beyond the six. The first year we had seven or eight. Beyond

Status of Women committee  There has been no change on the partnership fund. There is still a community fund and a partnership fund. I would need more clarification on the reduction in budgets, because there has not been a reduction in the budget.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  Certainly.

Status of Women committee  Yes. Departments were asked as part of the departmental action plan on gender-based analysis to implement structures, procedures, processes, and policies within their own departments in order to ensure that they institutionalize GBA as an ongoing and sustainable practice within

Status of Women committee  I'm just doing an opening introduction. You had those last week on the deck for the programs.

Status of Women committee  Sébastien will begin in just a moment on page 4.

Status of Women committee  No, no, that's okay. I will now ask Sébastien Goupil to provide the committee members with an overview of our strategic policy activities, including international as well as gender-based analysis efforts. Nanci-Jean will then make a short presentation. Thank you.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to start by apologizing to the committee for not being able to appear when I was invited in December, due to a death in the family. I thank the committee for its understanding. I'm pleased to appear here before you today, particularly on the subje