Status of Women committee  Thank you for your concern about the health and well-being of our non-profit sector and the workers. There are two pieces I would pull apart there. The first is the necessity to support the workers we've talked about and the flexibility to respond to a second wave and beyond. The second is to understand that, collectively in our sector, we work creatively across different networks, as you mentioned, and sectors.

Status of Women committee  I can answer that question more directly. The portion of funding that we received from the emergency community support fund has been distributed provincially, based on population, actually. The proportional amount United Way received in Manitoba would follow that same logic. It's the same across the country.

Status of Women committee  I don't know the answer to that question, unfortunately, given that I don't know what the allocations were to the other intermediaries. I know that our distribution through United Way was based on two factors: One was the population; the second was the consideration of need. If they were a highly rural community where it's more difficult to meet needs, we would have topped up, in a sense, funding allocations so that the money could make more of a difference.

Status of Women committee  Again, it would have been proportional to population. I should follow up with you. I can give you the exact figures on that. That would be no problem.

Status of Women committee  I'm not aware of anything related to that.

Status of Women committee  Certainly. Thank you for the question. We're very happy to report that allocations in the greater Toronto area have been made through the emergency community support fund. There has been a really strong emphasis in the greater Toronto area, as well as across the country, on implementing decisions based on considerations of equity, to ensure that diverse women, racialized communities and other very vulnerable groups are receiving this money.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. We serve over 5,000 communities. We fund over 3,400 community organizations and 5,600 vital community programs. We have 79 members, just to be clear on that as well, not 88. In terms of the specifics around the number of employees, I'm sorry. I don't have that figure in front of me.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that question as well. I'll say that it's one that I anticipated. Given that we're holding a contribution agreement with the federal government, it is actually theirs to disclose in terms of the figure of distribution. I'm not able to disclose that figure.

Status of Women committee  Wonderful. Thank you. I'd like to acknowledge that I'm speaking from the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe Nation and to thank the committee for the important opportunity to contribute to the study. I'm Anita Khanna. I'm the national director of public policy and government relations at United Way Centraide Canada.

Finance committee  Indigenous communities are clearly within the federal jurisdiction. I know from my own research that child poverty is an especially serious issue among indigenous people and that we need to study this question and provide housing solutions for families living on reserve. We need to have solutions for indigenous families also living off reserve, especially in urban indigenous communities, and we need to move this forward quickly.

Finance committee  Thank you for the opportunity to comment on Bill C-97 tonight. My name is Anita Khanna and I'm the national director of public policy and government relations for United Way Centraide Canada. We are a federated network of member offices serving more than 5,000 communities across Canada.