Status of Women committee  I think a lot of schools and school jurisdictions are committed. Again, I think you need the funding that goes to the provinces and then supports ministries of education.

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely, and I think it's consistency of outcomes and demanding accountability back to the reporting-in on those outcomes. I think school systems have a significant place in terms of policies and practices. Universities need to be training teachers in terms of curriculum

Status of Women committee  That's right. So where are the measures in that? We don't have a report card in Canada on social and emotional. When you talk about the promising best practices I think that really putting an enormous amount of energy into teaching kids around healthy relationships, reducing trau

Status of Women committee  This is the dilemma. Who has the responsibility and the accountability; where does the accountability lie? I think teachers and school systems have a responsibility, but the federal government has a role to play in universal standards and measures.

Status of Women committee  Yes, you need contracts. If I even think about contracts and how you even negotiate the terms of the contracts, when I think about the Government of Alberta giving money to all the school systems—and let's say, to the universities—within that, why can't there be a policy around

Status of Women committee  I think funding mechanisms are part of the problem. I think we need to rethink our funding approach. I talked about funding projects for the long term, recognizing that new, innovative programs take about 18 months to two years to get designed and even start to be tested. Then th

Status of Women committee  I would turn to my colleagues. I think they are both experts in best and promising practices in the immigrant women's sector.

Status of Women committee  I haven't studied the immigrant sector. My area is primary prevention and looking at promising policies and practices that support people to not engage in unhealthy or abusive relationships. So I think my colleagues had better respond to that.

Status of Women committee  Great. First I want to echo the need for a national action plan. I think you've heard that in every meeting. But it can't be designed in isolation, and I don't think it's just up to the federal government to solve this issue. I think the inclusivity piece, the customization to e

Status of Women committee  You have New Zealand and Sweden. I'm happy to send you all this research we've been analyzing. Many governments talk about outcomes. The Government of Alberta has created a set of outcomes. It's the monitoring, implementation, and then the evaluation piece that often gets dropp

Status of Women committee  I think it should be a shared responsibility with the Government of Canada, the provinces and territories, and community groups. I think that together everybody needs to be accountable for pieces. Ministries and departments need to be written into that plan versus just writing in

Status of Women committee  It is cold here.

Status of Women committee  There's salt everywhere.

Status of Women committee  Sure. That's by my colleague, Dr. Katreena Scott. I'm not sure if you've called her as a witness, but I would encourage you to because she's been studying this issue for some time. It's a best practice program and it's offered in Alberta. Just to take you back a bit I'm currently

Status of Women committee  Sure. I know lots of Canadian studies have been done on this, but there is no evidence to suggest that any kind of physical punishment actually does children good. There is an opportunity to repeal section 43 to prohibit corporal punishment in Canada. I would encourage the federa