I'm going to call to order the 21st meeting of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women.
I'll bring to the committee's attention that we were to deal with Ms. Smith's motion at the beginning of the meeting, but Ms. Smith has asked that we deal with it in our last 15 minutes. You have your committee calendar in front of you as well.
Mr. Stanton, you had asked a question about the finances of the committee about six weeks ago, and somehow I just never seem to be able to get this out of here. Our total budget for the committee is $166,400. We had not spent any extra of the committee's money until we started with our witnesses. We'll keep the committee posted on how our budget is progressing as part of our work here.
We're going to move on to our witnesses. We have Ms. Crawford from the Panache Model and Talent Management agency. Welcome, Ms. Crawford.
From the Native Women's Association of Canada, Erin Wolski is replacing Beverley Jacobs.
From Help Us Help The Children, we have Irena Soltys, the coordinator. Welcome.
From the organization against the sexual exploitation of women, we have Rhéa Jean, doctorand in philosophy, University of Sherbrooke; and Diane Matte, ex-coordinator, International Secretariat. Welcome.
To all of you, welcome. We appreciate very much your taking the time to come this morning to speak to us.
I will open the floor for whoever would like to go first.
Ms. Crawford, you were here first, so if you would like to, you can begin.