Status of Women committee  Good afternoon. We thank the Standing Committee on the Status of Women for inviting us today to present in this dialogue about the effects on our economic security of being a woman with a disability. It is vital that you hear from the women who are directly affected by disability

Status of Women committee  I will defer I think to my colleague Carmela. I have been in my position exactly two days. I'm here more as an observer than anything else. I'm honoured to be here and to be representing DAWN, but I think I'll give the floor to Carmela. She's very eloquent and she'll finish well

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I thought I had ten minutes. It doesn't matter.

Human Resources committee  I'll do the best I can. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Bonnie Brayton and I have been the National Executive Director of the DisAbled Women's Network of Canada for the past two years. My name is Bonnie Brayton and I'm the national executive director of the Di

Human Resources committee  I want to again thank everybody for your time today, and welcome any questions you may have.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for your question, and I thank Mr. Lessard for the question earlier. As I said, the poverty act in Quebec I know works in some contexts. I certainly don't think that a poverty act alone is a solution, but I can tell you from the experience of having used the program th

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon, everyone. We thank the Status of Women committee for inviting us to present today in this dialogue about the impact of elder abuse on women with disabilities and deaf women in Canada. It is vital to give us meaningful ways to participate at policy tables in the d

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry. Thank you. The current policy framework cannot adequately provide for the support and financial needs of aging people with disabilities. This has resulted in aging people with disabilities in situations of increased vulnerability, and a lack of access to appropriate s

Status of Women committee  The poorest women in Canada are those with disabilities. We are talking about women whose annual income is sometimes less than $10,000. When it comes to legal aid access, there are certainly major barriers for women with disabilities. Take, for example, a women in Nova Scotia wh

Status of Women committee  There are big systemic problems and there are already recommendations in place with respect to these. “End Exclusion” is a well-known activity that takes place here in Ottawa. It was last held just a few weeks ago. End Exclusion has been looking exclusively at the issue of pover

Status of Women committee  Thank you. When I was addressing the committee earlier, I mentioned that we've been working with the Department of Justice and Status of Women Canada. I would certainly say that your colleagues who work in the national office at Status of Women Canada have been paying very clos

Status of Women committee  The strategy is based on many years of working with different communities. The Canadian Association of Community Living developed a safety audit tool for communities several years ago. It's very much based on the concept of identifying gaps at the community level. The process of

Status of Women committee  In the medium and long term, I would say absolutely yes. The first thing you have to do--and what we plan to do in the first phase--is identify where those gaps are, to concretize housing issues, to concretize the justice system issues, to take them from the place of recognizing

Status of Women committee  It's pretty skinny right now. We receive some funding from the Office for Disability Issues under the social development partnerships program, the SDPP-D. I became executive director five years ago. When I did, DAWN Canada had been in service to Canadian women with disabilities

Status of Women committee  It was in 2007.