Electoral Reform committee  Hello.

Status of Women committee  I think the work that Raine is doing, bringing together the sector, is really important. You can tell just from the ideas she had that it requires those of us with some knowledge of what's happening in the field and then the big commercial companies that everyone's buying their d

Status of Women committee  We use social media extensively in our work, promoting everything we do. We push policy papers, press releases, programs, and projects out on social media, so they're there on Facebook and Twitter. I haven't gotten into the other programs, such as Instagram.

Status of Women committee  In addition, I did bring some cards. There's the Safety Siren, which you can download to your phone. That's a safety application that exists because of digital applications. That's a way for any woman to be safer. Our #NOTokay campaign is a media literacy tool you can use online

Status of Women committee  It's interesting. I just finished writing a brief for the federal strategy on gender-based violence, which is what we're going to get instead of a national action plan on violence against women and girls. It recommended that we seek national standards. It would have to be a colla

Status of Women committee  Also, you would get cross-pollination, learning about what's happening in different provinces and different areas, which would promote change faster. We're a national organization, and for us to get a message out across the country is obviously much more difficult, much more expe

Status of Women committee  Certainly as a parent I would pursue that. I would be talking to my son if that's where he's learning about sex—not that I have a son. With legislatures, it's a thorny issue. I think the frame that we would bring to it is things that are exploitative and things that are promoting

Status of Women committee  Through legislation?

Status of Women committee  On the issue of young boys first encountering information about sex and depictions of sex on the Internet through porn, the way to get to that is to educate them at a younger age with better content, right? Something like the Ontario government's new sex education curriculum is r

Status of Women committee  The ICT round table that Raine has convened has folks on it from Facebook and Microsoft. We need more co-operation from those kinds of providers, which is coming very slowly. The Internet was really developed a bit like the Wild West. It's a freedom place and everybody gets to

Status of Women committee  Hi. Thank you for the invitation to be here today. For almost 150 years, YWCA Canada has worked to improve the lives of young women and girls through programs, projects, and policy advocacy. As Canada's single largest provider of shelter for women and children fleeing violence,

Status of Women committee  You haven't got sound on.

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon. I am Ann Decter. I am the director of advocacy and public policy at YWCA Canada. We are both from the national office of the YWCA, not the YMCA. We do end up correcting that a lot. It is nice to see so many men here to learn about violence against young women and

Finance committee  I made two quantified requests. One was for $5 million to Status of Women Canada to support sector engagement in the violence against women national action plan. The other was for $10 million for the shelter enhancement program.

Finance committee  That's probably a personal answer. We don't have a policy on climate change for a women's services organization.