Status of Women committee  I would leave any precise financial questions to my colleague, the chief financial officer, Anik Lapointe. We have hired up fully in our gender-based analysis unit. We have tackled our action plan, which has been shared with the committee, I believe, with full force, and been abl

Status of Women committee  We are in the process right now of defining our future and multi-year research program that we'll be conducting using the budget 2016 money. In the past year, we used it to support our engagement strategy on a gender-based violence strategy. We're in that process right now. We ar

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely.

Status of Women committee  I think we'd have to get back to you on that one.

Status of Women committee  It would be helpful if we could get the exact name of the data and the study you are referencing in your question. Statistics Canada does a lot of work. We're working with them right now on questions related to gender-based violence, for example. They do a lot of work to field

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Hello everyone. I'm very happy to return to this committee. We were here at the beginning, so it's great to have watched your study through the last several months and to have the opportunity to appear again at the closing end of it. This study is timely because pro

Status of Women committee  How much time do I have?

Status of Women committee  This should be easy.

Status of Women committee  As you're aware, as probably the whole committee is aware, a progressive trade agenda is a very new concept, and Canada at the moment is showing real leadership in this area. There are some very specific and concrete things that can be achieved through a progressive trade agend

Status of Women committee  Sure. We do have a team. About half of the people who are anticipated are staffed. Some of them already were in Status of Women and have many years of expertise in the area of gender-based violence across all the different tentacles and all the initiatives going on in different

Status of Women committee  It is part of the gender-based violence strategy to fund a survey of post-secondary education. It's a population-based survey, so it is different from what's going on already in several provinces that do have jurisdiction over universities and campuses. I'll just add that this

Status of Women committee  I'll jump in there. I'm officially the old-timer at Status of Women Canada. I've been there for two and a half years. I have more corporate memory than some of my colleagues. A few years ago, there was an initiative to fund civil society organizations looking at the issue of cam

Status of Women committee  As my colleagues know, it's one of my favourite topics, because when we've appeared here in the last two and a half years, we've talked about this as being like trying to turn a big ship around. I was thinking about it this morning, and I think we're heading kind of southwest at

Status of Women committee  There was. Gender-based analysis has been a mandatory function for many, many years in the federal government in the development of policy and programs.

Status of Women committee  There was an action plan in place before. Status of Women did advise departments to develop action plans.