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Status of Women committee In terms of specific funding for things like sex education, that's the purview of the Public Health Agency of Canada. I do happen to know that they have funding for a project that is updating the “Canadian Guidelines for Sexual Health Education”, but I'm not in a position to spea
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee One of the objectives of collecting that data is to make it publicly available. As members of this committee might know, we released the gender results framework and a set of key indicators for measuring progress on gender equality. With budget 2019, we also released a website on
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee In response to a previous question, I had mentioned the fact that the Public Health Agency of Canada is currently funding a project to revise the “Canadian Guidelines for Sexual Health Education”. WAGE is working with the Public Health Agency of Canada in providing technical advi
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee In budget 2018, we got dollars specifically to support data collection and research in support of GBA+ and the gender results framework to ensure that our policies and programs are being informed by evidence and research.
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee That was not available previously.
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee There's always more that we can do. Certainly we have a great working relationship with Statistics Canada. We work very closely together to make sure that we're aware of the needs of those working on the front lines of other levels of government, of our own departments, in terms
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee That's correct. For example, through our gender-based violence strategy, we have funding that we send to StatsCan to work on three new national surveys to fill data gaps on gender-based violence. We also have funding that goes to Statistics Canada to help fill data gaps on the ge
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Lisa Smylie