Status of Women committee  I'll start and then I'll turn to my colleague, and actually Danielle as well, regarding the work we're doing with our provincial and territorial colleagues. As we're developing the national action plan for gender-based violence, the work we have under way with our provincial an

Status of Women committee  As I mentioned earlier, we have distributed, through Women's Shelters Canada, support to 432 women's shelters across the country, specifically to assist them during the COVID crisis. We have received a number of testimonials from specific organizations saying what this money and

Status of Women committee  It does not fall within Women and Gender Equality's mandate. We would have to go back to the Department of ISED for specifics on some of the details related to those projects.

Status of Women committee  I'll turn to my colleague.

Status of Women committee  We'll come back to you with your first question, if that's okay. We'll provide some written documentation on that. Yes, the men and boys area has been a very critical area of our engagement in terms of the gender-based violence national action plan. We were able to—

Status of Women committee  Thank you for your question. Yes, as you have just indicated, the women's entrepreneurship strategy is not a strategy that falls within WAGE but is very critical to some of the success, obviously, of women small business owners. There's an investment at this point of nearly $5 b

Status of Women committee  As we talked about earlier, we at WAGE for sure have been able to provide supports for organizations that are providing critical services, specifically, though, for those individuals fleeing violence. However, there has been a lot of support provided for women's organizations to

Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  I'm going to let my colleague Lisa Smylie answer that question for you. Thanks very much.

Status of Women committee  I totally recognize your point. The support through the capacity-building fund allowed these organizations to have multi-year funding, which is something that is relatively recent for some of these women's organizations, as well. Even that enabled them to do planning for three to

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for your question. We've worked together before in other departments, and we've spoken a lot about this issue, for sure. We often work very closely with our ESDC colleagues, because in that department they have a lot of support for some of the programming you

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. For the COVID response, with the original amount that I talked about for shelters and sexual assault centres and other organizations assisting women fleeing violence, we worked in partnership with the Province of Quebec and provided support to the Province of Quebec f

Status of Women committee  As the minister pointed out and Danielle referenced earlier, we are in the process right now of looking at, working on and participating in a number of engagements across the country. The Speech from the Throne reiterated the need to have a national action plan for gender-based v

Status of Women committee  I don't have a specific date, but I can tell you that the national action plan is something that was reiterated in the Speech from the Throne. We do have a federal gender-based violence strategy, and I'm going to turn to Danielle to highlight some pieces of that. We're building

Status of Women committee  To clarify, out of the capacity-building fund, 250 projects are specifically focused on that program or that element of our programming. You're right. We do hear that there's a lot of support for the capacity-building fund and we know that organizations really are in need of th