Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  On the Public Health Agency of Canada and their approach, I certainly think they should be answering to how they're leading this initiative. Certainly we can follow up and have them provide the schedule of meetings and what they've undertaken in their action plan, but they will r

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  The Public Health Agency of Canada has the lead on an interdepartmental approach to strategies to combat violence against women.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I think there is an increasing awareness of it. As we move on the education policies and programs and the first nations education acts and income assistance programs, the communities themselves are telling us that we have to work together. As Shawn said, you have to get in there

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Yes, the numbers that apply—

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I think what I can do, certainly, is provide you with the urban aboriginal strategy approach and where we've done it. The program services that are delivered as a matter of policy on reserve in the areas that we've talked about do fall under provincial jurisdiction off reserve, b

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  We try to do that on a daily and weekly basis, as to what the gaps are, and we do have some strong views on that. I think the best way to approach it is for us to proactively get you not only the evaluations that were done, but the management action plans and some of the strategi

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Just on the programmatic side, on all of the programs that we've talked about, they are generally, as a matter of policy, to provide the programming on reserve that isn't provided on reserve by the provinces in their general program delivery. On the urban aboriginal issue, which

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I actually can't comment on the case. I can certainly say that the government believes we are funding child and family services and that there's more funding to do. We're using the enhanced prevention approach, and we're continuing to roll that out. I can't really comment on th

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  No. What I said was that Status of Women Canada has amalgamated some of the best practices internationally, which they have gathered. They've put together a compendium on that.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Why don't you talk about that?

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  If I may, when we talk about community, there are community planning initiatives in Aboriginal Affairs whereby we—

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  No, and I was going to say information is coming from various places, but the communities are not in the process.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I should tell you that Status of Women Canada actually has a compendium of international best practices, particularly as they relate to culturally sensitive best practices. There are a lot of best practices that are being gathered, I think particularly on the prevention side of t

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Absolutely, we are working with the other departments. I can't underline enough that we are working with the provinces as well.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  My short answer would be yes, it goes on, and it goes on more and more. We certainly understand the interconnectedness, not only of bringing together the different government departments. As we move toward income assistance, we very much link it with both our department and HRSDC