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Status of Women committee Yes, it has increased.
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman
Status of Women committee Yes, it is substantive.
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman
Status of Women committee Yes, I believe so.
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman
Status of Women committee We have a very large range of non-governmental organizations that are funded through the settlement programming, including, yes, organizations like the YMCAs or YWCAs. To respond to an earlier question, organizations can come back for renewed funding whenever a new call for prop
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman
Status of Women committee There has been an increased focus on the issue of violence against women and practices that are dangerous to women's health and well-being within the settlement funding and within the various documents that support the settlement programs, such as “Welcome to Canada”. So there ha
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman
Status of Women committee There is a funding formula for settlement programming that's based on the intake of immigrants to each province, so that shifts from time to time. But overall, settlement funding has increased and is currently at $600 million per year.
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman
Status of Women committee I believe it was $200 million in 2003.
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman
Status of Women committee Your question is: what has the increase been?
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman
Status of Women committee A brochure right now for sponsored spouses is available in French and English, but settlement services are available in other languages as well. “Welcome to Canada” is in two languages, but the other brochure focused on the exemption for conditional permanent residence is in eigh
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman
Status of Women committee I don't have the full list with me, but I'll try to get that. Oh, it's right here. Okay, I'm sorry; my colleague pre-empted that question. It's in English, French, Spanish, Tagalog, Hindi, traditional Chinese, Mandarin, and Urdu.
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman
Status of Women committee I don't believe we do have that sort of data in terms of the impacts of any changes to our funding model or amount. But we might be able to get the information on the numbers served through our settlement services.
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman
Status of Women committee I don't believe we have access to that data. I don't believe we track it in that sense. We have access to data on how many permanent residents and refugee women are served through our settlement services.
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman
Status of Women committee How many are coming forward with specific cases of violence? No. We have excellent descriptions of the programming that's made available through the non-government organizations funded through CIC, many of which are focused on violence against women. We have plenty of best practi
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman
Status of Women committee It's those who we're actually serving through the settlement services, the difference in the number of people we've been serving. I'll try to get the answer.
November 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Justine Akman