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Status of Women committee To the best of my understanding, through AANDC they provide $4 million a year for shelters on reserve only. None of that money is available to Inuit communities. They are specifically excluded.
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn
Status of Women committee We had none. We were not consulted or asked for advice or priorities at all.
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn
Status of Women committee I appreciate that question, and it's something we have given a lot of thought to. There's quite a problem in lack of capacity and lack of civil society, if you will, in Inuit communities. Iqaluit is probably the biggest one. It's the only city. Again, it's only really two generat
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn
Status of Women committee It's zero.
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn
Status of Women committee What I've heard directly from many women is that women and children need to be able to stay in their home, but it's very complex. It's very complex because there often is no option. There is no other place to go for safety and homelessness is not viable in the Arctic.
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn
Status of Women committee I've heard very clearly from many Inuit women that yes, the offender should be removed.
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn
Status of Women committee The situation in the north is even further complicated by things like the circuit court system, so there may be long delays. Certainly, we've been having a national dialogue in this country recently about the many reasons that prevent women from going to police. For a woman in C
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn
Status of Women committee It was half of one per cent—$155,000 of $27 million this year.
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn
Status of Women committee That's a big question. There must be more equitable access to support services in the communities, and that would include victims services. Most communities are served only by a health centre. You know, we appeared recently before the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Righ
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn
Status of Women committee I think there are zero.
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn
Status of Women committee I'm not aware of any psychiatry resident in the north. These services in Nunavik, I think, are available through telehealth—virtually. That would be one. I would say that the second overarching recommendation would be the need for investments to address the immediate crisis. Th
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn
Status of Women committee That was economic development for Inuit women.
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn
Status of Women committee We did a bit of a literature review looking at better or promising practices in indigenous populations and communities, broadly with the objective of working with men to reduce violence. We narrowed it down to about 10 practices we thought were promising. One was the I Am A Kind
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn
Status of Women committee It is.
December 9th, 2014Committee meeting
Tracy O'Hearn