Status of Women committee  Thank you for asking the question. I would like to clarify my answers. From what I know, the funding is not going to the foundation because it no longer exists. The funding is... from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Service Canada, and Health Canada. My understanding is

Status of Women committee  I'm happy to look into that and get back to the committee.

Status of Women committee  I can tell you as well that the funding for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation wasn't continued in this budget. However, there was funding in the order of $200 million over the next few years for Health Canada, Indian and Northern Affairs, and Service Canada to provide services. T

Status of Women committee  Thank you. With respect to the program, since 2007 there has been an injection of over $55 million over five years. That funding has allowed for more prevention projects in the communities. As in most areas of social policy, the prevention side is where you want to focus. There

Status of Women committee  Thank you for your questions. The funding from my department goes to prevention and protection, if I may describe them like that. We are currently investing $7 million of the $29 million per year in the prevention projects. So these are projects across the country that help

Status of Women committee  I have the list here, and I could share it with you. I will do that.

Status of Women committee  The other funds go to the shelters. Approximately $22.6 million goes to support the running of the shelters. It pays the salaries of the workers, the case workers, the directors of the shelters, etc.

Status of Women committee  The funding from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada goes to 41 centres. But in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, the funding is largely covered in the territorial formula financing. This is the financing envelope that isn't with our department. It goes out to the territorie

Status of Women committee  In terms of the agency, they do lead the initiative, but it's largely a coordination role. It's not as if they have so many programs themselves. Then, in terms of programs, each department has its own mandate, of course. So there's housing, because there's a need for housing on

Status of Women committee  Yes and no isn't a good answer, but in the initial--

Status of Women committee  Well, as part of the initiative we all bring what we can do through our own mandates, and we all keep each other informed of what's going on and how it could be better coordinated. We have increased funding to deal with housing and water. We're trying to make efforts with aborigi

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the question. I can tell you that the Public Health Agency of Canada does lead a family violence prevention initiative where 15 departments come together. There are three objectives to that initiative: one is promoting public awareness about the risk fact

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for inviting the department to appear before the committee. It is indeed a privilege for my colleague and me to appear before you as you commence an important study on violence against aboriginal women in Canada. In my opening remarks, I would l

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. In terms of the 6%, the Auditor General raised it, and the public accounts committee raised it in terms of developing a formula based on need. The program is in transition, and no matter which funding model we're talking about--in one model there are two components a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's not the only calculation. There is operations, there is protection, and there is prevention. Two components are based either on actuals or on what first nations agencies see themselves doing in terms of prevention. The 6% is used in that operations component along with those