Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and honourable members. I thank you for inviting Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada to appear before this committee. My name is Paula Isaak, and I am the assistant deputy minister responsible for education and social development programs and partnership

Status of Women committee  Thank you for your question. Yes, our family violence prevention programming has a couple of aspects. There is the shelters piece, but there's also prevention programming. That's proposal-driven: communities and organizations give us proposals for prevention programs—exactly the

Status of Women committee  In the last few years, that has been a preoccupation not only in the federal government department but in the provinces and territories as well. Last year there was funding to the National Association of Friendship Centres to do a pan-Canadian awareness mobile platform. It was de

Status of Women committee  That's right.

Status of Women committee  For the pieces identified for indigenous women and girls, the content for a pan-Canadian awareness strategy has not yet been designed. That remains to be seen. There'll be more discussions with the national aboriginal organizations on that. Right now the mobile platform that the

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Both Kim and I referred to that because it's a fairly shocking statistic, and it's a complex question. I think poverty and some of the other social determinants do play a role in the vulnerability of women and girls and therefore their vulnerability to violence. I wo

Status of Women committee  The policing services are provided by a mix of provincial and federal—through the RCMP—services across Canada, so it's difficult to generalize to say whether that is in fact a factor. What we heard in the pre-consultation process for the national inquiry is that communities hav

Status of Women committee  I guess I would say the overall funding of $8.4 billion that the government announced is a start to that. Is it adequate? It's difficult to say whether it's adequate. The demands are very high. I think certainly the funding will be able to address a lot of the housing and infra

Status of Women committee  The budget announced $40 million over two years for an inquiry. Once the inquiry is launched, they will determine how they fund participants, depending upon the design of that inquiry. That remains to be seen. I think we certainly heard that it's important that survivors and vic

Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. I'd like to thank the committee for this invitation and would also like to acknowledge that we are gathered on traditional Algonquin territory. This is an important study, and I want to offer INAC's full support as it e

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As Dr. Wong was talking about, the long-term solution is around ensuring those basic underpinnings are solid. That means ensuring education supports, labour market supports, and income supports are there to prevent these from happening in the future. Those are long-term solutions

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely, the 1965 agreement does need to be changed. It needs to be changed in partnership. We can't change it unilaterally. The first step was an increased investment in Ontario for child welfare, recognizing that the 1965 agreement is the framework in which child welfar

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It will depend on the needs that come out of those discussions. Then we'll bring in our partners as necessary, whether that's Health Canada or others, to look at that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, that's one of the programs the department offers. It has a couple of components. Its primarily focused on supporting a network of 41 shelters on reserves across the country, as well there are some programming dollars that communities are offered with respect to creating pre