Status of Women committee  Very limited, because no one wants to be the first one to do this, because then you're at a disadvantage with your competitors and with other labels. Our projects of course are small scale. We try, in some circumstances, to generate knowledge and identify things that would work.

Status of Women committee  We have worked with groups sporadically over the last few years that have brought this to our attention, and we funded a handful of projects over time where groups are trying to get the fashion industry, for instance, to set standards and self-regulate around that.

Status of Women committee  I would start by saying that it's not really surprising that diseases or issues that affect women in a disproportionate manner are not addressed necessarily by Status of Women. Each department looks at the totality of the Canadian population when it develops its programs and policies.

Status of Women committee  I don't think there's much that I could add to this, because I get your point that issues that affect women in a disproportionate manner are a concern. At the agency, we've been focusing particularly on the issues of violence against women, the economic shortcomings in terms of the challenges, and the lack of women's presence in terms of leadership.

Status of Women committee  I'm very confident that we're going to have very good data—

Status of Women committee  —and we will be able to identify what works best, what works in certain circumstances, and what works in limited circumstances. Not every evaluation will show that everything works for a given situation, but it will hopefully allow us to identify the success factors for where it should be used as a recipe.

Status of Women committee  What we've been exploring in recent years, for about two years, is when we select projects for funding, for instance, the campus projects.... We had some 22 or 24 projects that were selected for funding. We tried to create a community among the project proponents, where they would be put in contact by teleconference to share learnings.

Status of Women committee  I would say that we had very solid, qualitative data, good indications of what works, but we were not as solid in establishing the proof, establishing a chain of results. Sometimes it was more difficult for us to establish that it was our intervention that caused something to happen.

Status of Women committee  In terms of funding for groups and evaluation of results, the most recent program evaluation took place two years ago. It dealt with the 2006 to 2010 period. At that time, the department had a slightly different approach in terms of calls for proposals. At the time, we would tend to wait until we were presented with the material.

Status of Women committee  Starting with the selection of projects, as you're probably aware, we do our calls for proposals through our website. Our calls describe very specifically the types of projects we're looking for, and what the key results are that need to be achieved.

Status of Women committee  We were seeking an approach that would give us more comparable data so that we could identify what works and what is maybe not quite as successful.

Status of Women committee  In terms of possibly some other angles, when it comes to women in non-traditional employment, we've put a lot of focus on public education on that specific topic this year. For instance, we had a series of YouTube videos during Women's History Month profiling women in non-traditional employment.

Status of Women committee  Not specifically. That tends to be with the responsibility that lies with our provincial colleagues. We do fund a number of projects that will identify the barriers to the interest and entry of young girls into these types of employment.

Status of Women committee  What we have is actually a little bit broader. What we did two years ago is launch a call for proposals so that campus communities across the country, whether they're colleges or universities, could approach us with projects that would allow them to explore what the risks are to young women currently, and what the possible measures are to implement, to increase the safety of these women on the campuses.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  In terms of the FEWO report you were mentioning, when it comes to reports from the standing committee, we go through the recommendations in detail and engage the different.... As you know, just because it's the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, all the levers are not necessarily with Status of Women.