Status of Women committee Thank you very much, Madam Chair and honourable members of the committee, for inviting Indigenous Services Canada to appear before this committee for this very important topic. It's a pleasure to be here with you gathered today on traditional Algonquin territory. Indigenous wom
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist
Status of Women committee To answer that very briefly for my piece of it, which is the programming for indigenous women and children, the shelters run all kinds of prevention programming themselves and they offer a safe space on reserve, the ones we fund for women and their children. I haven't heard about
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist
Status of Women committee Again, with respect to the programming for indigenous services, most of the project-based proposals we have are focused on prevention. Many of them engage men and boys in the dialogue around power imbalance in society, which goes to the core of the causes of violence against wome
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist
Status of Women committee Under our program, the funding is for reserves only.
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist
Status of Women committee No, the funding is exclusively for shelters on reserves. On the other hand, the funding for prevention initiatives goes to reserves as well as municipalities.
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist
Status of Women committee They use the shelters in the cities. As I said, that is a problem in the north. In small communities, there are no places for women and children to go. They go to Iqaluit, but there is just one place there that can accommodate them.
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist
Status of Women committee No, that is under provincial jurisdiction. I have figures for places on reserves, but not in the cities.
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist
Status of Women committee Many of our programs involve developing strategies to encourage women, men and families to engage in prevention in their community. That is the case with our First Nations Child and Family Services program, which focuses specifically on violence prevention. For cities, we have f
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist
Status of Women committee That's the number currently built.
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist
Status of Women committee All are on reserve.
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist
Status of Women committee That's what we fund at Indigenous Services, the operation of the shelter. CMHC funds the building of the shelters on reserve.
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist
Status of Women committee They have executive directors and staff who run them. We fund the operation of those.
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist
Status of Women committee No, not necessarily.
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist
Status of Women committee Staff are hired to run the shelter on reserve.
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist
Status of Women committee It is an executive director, often.
October 15th, 2018Committee meeting
Margaret Buist