Status of Women committee  We now have 89 staff.

Status of Women committee  I think what you're talking about there is the reference to the workforce adjustment measures that were in place. We made counselling available to all of our people affected by workforce adjustment so that they were able to seek other employment. We were very effective, actually,

Status of Women committee  We always look at budgets and the impact of them on women. In terms of our research and our capabilities, we have access to a lot of statistics, which are really what is important. There's a lot of research being done, both internationally and nationally, with other departments

Status of Women committee  I suppose it's an ideas paper about the possibilities; it's not so much research. They may have to do some research in the process, but it's the other ways to support young families than exist at the present time, which may be within provincial jurisdiction or federal jurisdictio

Status of Women committee  To clarify that I understand what you're asking for, are you talking about the dollars in programming funding, or the number of programs that were funded?

Status of Women committee  I can start. I don't have a targeted date. That's something that obviously we're working on with the government, to determine what the target date will be. In terms of the regions, we have regional offices, as you know, in Edmonton, in Moncton, in Montreal, and our Ontario and

Status of Women committee  No, I understand that. One of the things we are doing this year is working to ensure that all of the Service Canada offices have the information that's needed to be able to help women's groups. I know--

Status of Women committee  As you are aware, the community fund and the partnership fund have only existed since the beginning of 2007. The other would be the old women's program, and any information would be under the old--

Status of Women committee  Right.

Status of Women committee  With respect to your last question, about supports for young families, that is referring to an initiative we have with our territorial and provincial colleagues. We are commissioning a paper to look at what are the other possible ways, apart from EI, to have benefits and supports

Status of Women committee  As I've said to the committee before, Status of Women was certainly behind. We have hired another person. We also have a consultant who works with us, and we've made considerable progress in getting at the backlog. There are challenges because some of the requests require appro

Status of Women committee  Taking from the reaction that we get in the world community, other countries think Canada is a leader in this regard. Our gender machinery is very much the envy of many other countries and of many provinces whose machinery is inside another department; we are a separate departmen

Status of Women committee  Yes, that's part of it. When we put money in, we also break it down in terms of our support services. Communication and corporate services support our major line, which is directed towards policy and programs. So those are built in, but they support the work we do with other depa

Status of Women committee  We supply everything through the normal channels.

Status of Women committee  The think tanks also do some work, as well as the Conference Board of Canada, the policy forums; the North-South Institute, in fact, does a fair bit on gender.