Finance committee  Yes. Federal budget 2016 should close the discriminatory funding gap for first nations child and family services determined in the January 26, 2016 ruling of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. We would also suggest that the development of a poverty reduction strategy needs a

Finance committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for the invitation to appear today on behalf of YWCA Canada. For almost 150 years, YWCA Canada has worked to improve the lives of the tens of thousands of women and girls who use our services annually. My remarks today respond directly to their life exp

Finance committee  You're correct. The costs are extremely high, and for many families the option of having one person stay home and take care of the children is not viable. We know while the wage gap between men and women has narrowed, the salary gap over a lifetime has not. That is usually becaus

Finance committee  That same study indicated that with women's greater participation in the workforce, GDP in Quebec rose by $5.1 billion, or 1.7%. Quebec's investment in low-cost child care generated $104 for the provincial government for every $100 investment, plus $43 for the federal government

Finance committee  This is for the period between 1996 and 2008, the first 12 years of low-cost child care. Almost 70,000 additional mothers joined the workforce; it was, I think, 69,700. Employment rates for mothers with children under the age of six increased 22%. The number of single mothers on

Finance committee  I believe it does. In the announcements it produced in its pre-budget consultations—I can't remember the exact figure—it had a specific number of children who would be moved out of poverty by getting to the $5,900 limit, so certainly $6,400 would do the same thing.

Finance committee  Right, well, it's for families really. Children don't live on their own.

Finance committee  It's really a net revenue generator.

Finance committee  It's preventive. It reduces costs down the road. Imagine you take half of the single mothers living on social assistance and their children go to child care. They get the benefit of all that happens every day in day care, and all of the literature is now clear that it's very be

Finance committee  Thank you. Good morning. I'm Ann Decter. I am the director of advocacy and public policy at YWCA Canada. As the country's oldest and largest women's multi-service organization with member associations serving women and girls in nine provinces and two territories, YWCA Canada is

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. First I will say that it is not my area of expertise. I would definitely bow to the two people we have from B.C. for more detailed expertise on this. But it would definitely seem that the media and the general public are lacking in understanding of explicit continui

Status of Women committee  We would much rather see women not become homeless due to violence, absolutely.

Status of Women committee  There were issues with Bill S-2.

Status of Women committee  It's basically a supportive housing model. It is housing young women and it is also providing the support services around it. It's long-term housing. It's not an emergency shelter. I think they've come through emergency shelter to there. On site it has the kind of support service

Status of Women committee  One thing I would say is, I think the best practices shift as our work moves forward. If you see the stats with regard to shelters, for example—that's part of our area of expertise, as we have 18 shelters across the country in six provinces and two territories—if you have two-thi