Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. My name is Paulette Senior. I'm the president and CEO of the Canadian Women’s Foundation. I'm pleased to be presenting to you today. The Canadian Women’s Foundation is Canada’s only national public foundation for women and girls and one of the 10 largest wo

Human Resources committee  Thanks. I appreciate that. More than 65% of cleaners working in hospitals, schools and office buildings are women. Much cleaning work, now perceived as essential, has long been precarious: part-time, low-paid, often subcontracted work, lacking job protections, paid sick leave or

Human Resources committee  Sure, I'd be happy to do that. Thank you for the question. It's great to see you again. We have been one of the organizations working closely with Women and Gender Equality to provide funding to the sector. Back in April, we were able to secure $3 million that we provided specif

Human Resources committee  That was completed over a two-week period. Then, most recently, we were able to again work with Women and Gender Equality to start distributing, as of last week, $10 million specifically to non-sexual-assault centres, non-shelter, but GVB organizations. In total, we identified,

Human Resources committee  We distributed funding to sexual assault centres throughout the country, those that were identified by us, but also through WAGE, so if there are those that we have missed that are not connected to hospitals, for example—

Human Resources committee  Yes. If they're connected with hospitals, they were not on the list.

Human Resources committee  I think it's important to note that.

Human Resources committee  Women's College Hospital would be a good example of that, right? They did not make the list. These were stand-alone sexual assault centres. However, we do have a bit of contingency, so if there are those that we have missed for some reason, we can actually turn around and make

Human Resources committee  First of all, let me say that shelters across the country, gender-based shelters or those dealing with violence against women, would have gotten funding through the national women's shelter, Women's Shelters Canada. That's not within our purview at this time.

Human Resources committee  That's right.

Human Resources committee  Yes, and that was the $3 million. This $10 million is for organizations that are not sexual assault centres. We've been working with WAGE to develop that list. We have worked for weeks to refine the list. We even got information from all the provinces and territories to work on t

Human Resources committee  That's right.

Human Resources committee  Not as yet.

Human Resources committee  We've started the process already. They don't have to apply; we just reach out to them. We have developed a one-page registration list that we sent to them to include all of their banking information, to confirm their charitable number, etc. We make sure all of that is correct, a

Human Resources committee  Well, I think the pandemic has really revealed some of the issues that were already there and exacerbated them. It's important that as we move forward, particularly as we start to think about recovery, we consider all of the various elements that have made women, particularly wom