Status of Women committee  It isn't aligned now, but it could be.

Status of Women committee  The mantra at DAWN Canada is “leadership, partnership, and networking”. That's because we're one agency serving millions of women in this country and the only agency that's focused on women with disabilities and deaf women in Canada. It's one of the few in the world. I think that

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon, everyone. I would like to begin today by recognizing that we are in a time of truth and reconciliation here in Canada with our indigenous sisters and brothers and acknowledge that we are gathered today on the territory of the Algonquin Nation. I would also lik

Status of Women committee  That's right.

Status of Women committee  I appreciate that you've taken the time to look carefully at that study. It's a very important piece of work, and I'm glad you've asked these questions. To be really clear, we are criminalizing women with disabilities. We are doing this in terms of the homeless population. Again

Status of Women committee  There aren't any that I'm aware of. There's certainly research going on, as I said. I think that's where Canadians and the Government of Canada have an opportunity to lead on this. We have been leading on the issue of addressing violence against women, and I think this is an impo

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  No; no meaningful change.

Status of Women committee  No. There's a huge problem with housing and institutionalization of women and girls with disabilities.

Status of Women committee  I can't state it strongly enough: it begins with recognizing that the resources simply aren't there. The work we're doing through our current project on legislation, policy, and service responses affirms what we've known for a long time at DAWN Canada, and further affirms what

Status of Women committee  Are you talking about the sex work study?

Status of Women committee  I don't know for sure. It was done by a group in British Columbia. I could certainly find out. It was probably the provincial government in British Columbia, since it was a B.C.-based study.

Status of Women committee  Largely what is happening, and from most of what I've picked up—I think this is a really important point to make, and it's a piece of work DAWN is working on now—is that lots and lots of research gets done and the disability lens is either not applied or the disability research i