Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you very much for being here. I appreciate all of the expertise and what you do on a daily basis. I think that CMHC is a very important resource in terms of addressing housing needs. Over the years, I have come to know how significant its role is.

Status of Women committee  One thing that troubles me is that dependence on partnering. Municipalities, for example, are struggling in many cases. I wonder about capacity. I'm ancient. When I first started out in this business, there were all kinds of community-based organizations, non-profits, that were

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Ms. Holden, I have a couple of questions. You talked about the new measurement being the market basket measure. There's been some profound concern expressed about how it differs from the old measurement. I understand that there was a variation in terms of where you w

Status of Women committee  You're so cruel, Madam Chair.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you very much for being here. I have a number of questions. I want to start with the department. One of the concerns I've heard with regard to the department is that core funding for women's organizations has disappeared and now it's project-by-pr

Status of Women committee  Is it possible that we would return to core funding in order to provide that support? I know you mentioned $100 million, but that issue is still out there. Has it been considered?

Status of Women committee  Thank you. There's been discussion between the two panels with regard to aging and community. I recently had a meeting with the VON non-profit home care providers, and the issue is that they cannot attract volunteers. They cannot attract home care providers because of the low wa

Status of Women committee  Are you saying you've heard nothing, no rumblings, in that regard?

Status of Women committee  I thought that raising that with you might be of interest, because you talk about gathering data and how important that is. I know there is a critical shortage of gerontologists, and very often family doctors just don't have access to the information they need, the data they ne

Status of Women committee  Collectively, you touched on elder abuse. Some years ago, this committee did a study on elder abuse, particularly among seniors. One of the things that were discovered was that seniors are very reticent. They are embarrassed; they don't want to talk about their grandson or grandd

Status of Women committee  Thank you for being here. Thank you for what you do. At one point I was a seniors critic. One of the realities I discovered in my research was that seniors are not valued as they should be. You very clearly value the seniors of our various communities, and as was pointed out, th

Status of Women committee  The whole issue of funding was discussed. You talked about membership fees and, of course, the fact that membership fees can eliminate quite a significant group of people because they just can't afford it. I am interested in what you had to say in regard to federal funding. Mr.

Status of Women committee  The time that is consumed by finding these little bits and pieces could go into programming and services much more effectively than worrying about project funding. There was some discussion about hearing loss exacerbating cognitive ability. We're hearing more and more about the

Status of Women committee  We've talked about the impact of lack of funding on individuals and the community. I wonder if you've had the chance to look at the impact on extended family.

Status of Women committee  Thanks.