Status of Women committee  I would just add that I would encourage you, as members of Parliament, to ask the additional question when government priorities come before you, when government initiatives come before you. Consistent with Canada's commitments under the Beijing Platform for Action, you should as

Status of Women committee  Not off the top of my head; I'm sorry. A list of indicators of...? What are you interested in measuring?

Status of Women committee  Indicators measure change over time or indicators measure differences between and among groups. What are you interested in measuring? If I understood that more, I could perhaps do a better job of answering the question.

Status of Women committee  Can I answer? You have to start in-house. You start with your own budgetary initiatives, as I think my colleagues on the panel have said. That would mean starting with cleaning up your own house, and being clear, when as parliamentarians you vote to support or to oppose budgetary

Status of Women committee  My short list is quite similar. You've been charged with looking at gender budgeting. Come out of this with a recommendation, I would ask, that, as Armine has said and I've said earlier, requires those very talented and very knowledgeable staff in the Department of Finance to ask

Status of Women committee  If I can begin, we need a national child care program. I did work with this committee. It was over 20 years ago when this committee considered child care in the mid-1980s. I was advocating for a national child care program here. Since then I've had a child and she's now past day

Status of Women committee  Okay. Those are a lot of questions. I'll do my best to speak quickly. I was the lead consultant retained by the province to do the work with policy staff across departments, and then they had a competitive process and four pilot projects were selected. I think we've made a good

Status of Women committee  I would. Thank you very much for the opportunity, Ms. Grewal. In this exercise we're talking about incorporating gender analysis into the budgeting process. If this committee were successful in requiring that the Department of Finance incorporate gender-based analysis into its a

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. I want to second what Armine has said. Just to add to that, we're here talking about gender budgeting, and I particularly used housing as an example because I wanted committee members to understand that even in those areas that appear gender neutral on the

Status of Women committee  Okay. Note that while the incidence of core housing need is lower among senior men than among working-age men, it's higher among senior women than among their younger counterparts. I understand I'm out of time. I'd like to draw your attention to figure 4, which shows that whe

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the opportunity to be here. I'm here today as a volunteer representing UNPAC Manitoba. UNPAC is the United Nations Platform for Action Committee. In Winnipeg I am self-employed. I do research, much of it focused on gender and women's health and social and economic

Status of Women committee  Armine is going first.