Yes.
Federal budget 2016 should close the discriminatory funding gap for first nations child and family services determined in the January 26, 2016 ruling of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
We would also suggest that the development of a poverty reduction strategy needs a gender lens, a gender-based analysis, and grounding in the realities of women's poverty. Women account for 70% of part-time employees and two-thirds of Canadians working for minimum wage. The median income of single-mother-led families is one-third lower than that of father-led single parent families. The strategy needs to include all women living in poverty. Some of the most vulnerable of women are homeless young women escaping sexual abuse and abused adult women coping with trauma, mental health issues, and addictions who have lost their children to the depths of the child welfare system.
Thank you.