Status of Women committee  Thank you. To go back to the issue of research, while we don't have nationally representative statistics, there is a growing body of research on the impacts of the resource extraction industry on indigenous women and girls. The member has pointed to some of those. We need to look at—

Status of Women committee  That is very kind. Thank you. I was just going to say that if we take a look at the impacts that the member has mentioned in terms of mental health and sexual health, and the impacts of sexual violence on indigenous women and girls in the resource extraction industry, it all comes down to culture.

Status of Women committee  Thanks, Minister. As the minister pointed out, there is $11 million in research and knowledge mobilization. We acknowledge that there isn't national data with respect to the impacts of resource extraction on indigenous women and girls and violence, and we need to fix that. Part of our funding is going to projects and research, community-based projects, so that we can better understand the impacts of this issue on indigenous women and girls, and with that knowledge, we can work to address it.

Status of Women committee  Through the federal strategy, as the minister said, we've spent over $30 million in research since 2017, and that has given us three new national surveys, including an ability to better understand intimate partner violence. Through that strategy, since 2015, we've also invested $213 million in 557 projects that have reached nearly 1.3 million women.

Status of Women committee  It was the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada that I mentioned previously. Since we have already mentioned that, I want to mention one more that's really important, which is the FOXY program in the Northwest Territories. It's a phenomenal program that's won an Arctic award for the impact it has had.

Status of Women committee  In terms of some best practices, WAGE has provided a million dollars in funding to Women's Shelters Canada, which produced an interactive map of shelters. Because of that, over 75,000 people were able—

Status of Women committee  I can take that question, Madam Chair. The short answer is yes, absolutely.

Status of Women committee  WAGE recently provided nearly $700,000 to the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada, which is taking action to ensure that sexual health education programs—comprehensive sexual health education in schools, for example—are more effective at addressing the harmful gender norms at a very young age, so influencing norms and attitudes that hopefully over the longer term will reduce gender-based violence, and intimate partner violence in particular.

Status of Women committee  The short answer is absolutely. Since the pandemic started, WAGE has invested nearly $100 million in more than 1,200 shelters, sexual assault centres and other organizations providing supports to people experiencing gender-based violence. Because of that, more than 1.3 million women and children have had somewhere to turn during the pandemic.

Status of Women committee  As we all know, reducing rates of gender-based violence is going to take some time. On the road to that, we've achieved some concrete results. For example, with the funding from the federal gender-based violence strategy given to our department, WAGE, alone, we've provided funding to more than 1,600 organizations.