Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you very much, ladies, for being here today. You make an invaluable contribution to the work of this Committee, in terms of the decisions we have to make as a group.
Ms. Goulet—and this also applies to Ms. Murphy—you have told us quite clearly that we are in the process of killing your organization, that it won't have enough funding to survive. The Minister claims to want to provide direct services, which is a provincial responsibility, rather than transferring funds to the provinces and giving the money to organizations involved in advocacy.
My impression is this: rather than agreeing to question policies that help to keep people living in poverty, that sustain violence, and so on, the government prefers to silence people, so that they can no longer talk about that violence or the poverty that is a fact a life for them.
In terms of direct services, we are really talking about the minimal conditions offered women to allow them to cope. We're not talking about services that will help them to develop.
What are your views?