Status of Women committee  I actually gave you a copy of the study when we met a few months ago—

Status of Women committee  —and the study is to look at the effectiveness of shelter provision and to hear from women, as well as shelter providers, in terms of what is working, what is not working, so that we can have a national perspective of how violence against women in the shelters is actually working

Status of Women committee  First, let me say that we did not make the list of those applications that got signed on September 25, so in fact we don't have the money to do it. The importance of phase 3 is that...phase 2 left off with a number of recommendations, the primary one of which was to be able to l

Status of Women committee  Absolutely.

Status of Women committee  The point I'd like to make is that the YWCA is spread right across the country, so organizations such as the YWCA in Edmonton and the YWCA in Kitchener-Waterloo have been able to utilize the regional offices, particularly around issues of women getting into politics. They've been

Status of Women committee  If I may add to that, I completely agree with my colleagues at the table. The only piece I could add to that is to say that if we don't support and pay for those programs and make sure we reinstate the funding to the size we had, and also support equality measures, we're going to

Status of Women committee  I mentioned in my comments the shelter study we did. It's the first ever national shelter study of its kind. We do need to be able to continue that work, but under the new terms and conditions we won't be able to. In fact, one particular important part of doing the study was to b

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and committee members. Thank you for the opportunity and the invitation to present the views of YWCA Canada on the two areas identified specifically as the potential impact of recent funding cuts and the program changes at Status of Women Canada. My pre