Status of Women committee  For homelessness, because that's the angle, there are two programs being supported by the portfolio of this department. One is the homelessness program per se, and the other is specifically housing. Housing is under the responsibility of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Status of Women committee  Well, absolutely not...what I would say is that the question you're raising concerning long-term care facilities is the responsibility of the provinces. I would think that the responsible provincial Minister of Health, for example, would be the one that would be looking into this

Status of Women committee  No, what I'm saying is that this is a provincial authority, so I don't think Health Canada can legislate the management of long-term care facilities that are falling under provincial—

Status of Women committee  I'll leave that to Health Canada to answer.

Status of Women committee  Are you asking about how provincial health care is provided to the citizens depending on where they live? Is that your question?

Status of Women committee  Okay. All I can say is that this department is not dealing with health, for sure--

Status of Women committee  I was going to say that I understand the RCMP is going to appear before the committee right after we do, so maybe they will be in a better position to provide additional information, unless, Ellen, you want to come in.

Status of Women committee  I would say two things. First, that information is based on some preliminary studies that have been done, as well as on some of the surveys that have been done with people. That is what they have identified most often as being the most important or as occurring most often. We al

Status of Women committee  --so when we look at some of the reports we're getting, it's sometimes difficult to compare them and be sure that our numbers are right.

Status of Women committee  I'll say a few words about the new horizons for seniors program, and then I will invite my colleague to give some examples of projects that are pursuing this objective. The program works at two levels. The first is what we call pan-Canadian projects. These are at the national le

Status of Women committee  First of all, thank you very much for inviting us to this committee. We're very pleased to be here, and I certainly commend the committee for the work it is doing on this issue of elder abuse involving mainly elder women. Needless to say, the issue of elder abuse is growing and

Human Resources committee  Yes, I simply want to wish you happy holidays on behalf of all my colleagues. Thank you.

Human Resources committee  Yes, we'll go back.

Human Resources committee  HRSDC has provided some funding for projects; some of them were related to adoptions. I think there's a significant difference between ongoing funding for an organization, for example, and some funding for a project. So I think there was a reference to a project that, if I recall

Human Resources committee  Not in detail. What I would say is that the question is whether the American system is comparable to the federal Canadian system in terms of—