Status of Women Committee on Nov. 20th, 2014

Evidence of meeting #36 for Status of Women in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was data.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Promising Practices to Prevent Violence Against Women

MPs speaking

Hélène LeBlanc
Susan Truppe
Niki Ashton
Tilly O'Neill-Gordon
Kirsty Duncan
John Barlow
Djaouida Sellah
Stella Ambler
Phil McColeman
Joan Crockatt

Also speaking

Linda Savoie  Senior Director General, Women's Program and Regional Operations Directorate, Status of Women Canada
Cathy Connors  Director, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada
Kimberly Elmslie  Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada
Pamela Arnott  Director and Senior Counsel, Policy Centre for Victim Issues, Department of Justice
Gillian Blackell  Senior Counsel and Coordinator, Children's Law and Family Violence Policy Unit, Department of Justice
Kathy AuCoin  Chief, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics , Statistics Canada

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NDP

The Chair NDP Hélène LeBlanc

Mrs. Truppe, you have the floor.

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Conservative

Susan Truppe Conservative London North Centre, ON

Madam Chair, if we're going to discuss committee business, I move that we go in camera.

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NDP

The Chair NDP Hélène LeBlanc

We will now vote to decide whether we are going to sit in camera.

(Motion agreed to)

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NDP

The Chair NDP Hélène LeBlanc

I would like to take a few seconds to thank our guests for their very important testimony. It gets our new study off to a good start.

I am going to suspend the meeting for a few minutes before we move in camera.

[Proceedings continue in camera]