Status of Women committee  We have tried to call attention to a number of things. Research continues to be important. Certainly we support pay equity, and I think the federal government does have direct abilities. Brigitte emphasized the importance of not having an austerity budget but rather continuing t

Status of Women committee  I'm afraid I haven't. CRIAW may have in its history, but I don't know of it.

Status of Women committee  Personally, I have not.

Status of Women committee  We refer to it as social infrastructure. The federal government has recently invested a lot in infrastructure, but that's more roads and bridges and physical bricks and mortar types of infrastructure. We want to call attention to the social infrastructure. It is just as important

Status of Women committee  We're starting year three of a five-year project, and things are getting quite interesting and exciting. We're starting to get some interesting results. We're also really starting to work with women in the communities and engage them in identifying the challenges and addressing t

Status of Women committee  What's the number one thing? It's always hard to say.

Status of Women committee  For Status of Women Canada, I think that continuing to fund research and advocacy is important, as is the funding of national women's organizations or women's organizations. Part of what Status of Women Canada has done, as well, has been to continue to dispense a lot of money.

Status of Women committee  Definitely.

Status of Women committee  No. CRIAW has a long history of working with community partners and of bridging that gap between academia and community. We started to look at SSHRC funding and we're having success there.

Status of Women committee  Yes, definitely, and we've not had nearly the success. Maybe it's a different focus—

Status of Women committee  I think partly because we focus a lot on issues relating to poverty in women and marginalized women, our constituency doesn't have the money to donate that amount.

Status of Women committee  —and what can work better, and to be able to advocate alternatives, things that will make improvements, which this committee is seeking to do around looking at young women.

Status of Women committee  I'm not sure about the early days, but I do know that CRIAW's whole creation and early strength relied very much on funding from Status of Women Canada. It, like many other national bilingual women's feminist organizations, really got started through Status of Women Canada. We've

Status of Women committee  We went through a very difficult time. We had to lay off our full-time executive director. We went from a staff of five to a staff of two who were part-time. So we really struggled. The board had to step up to the plate, and volunteers really had to take on trying to run the orga

Status of Women committee  Totally. Even now, for this project, we're starting to get findings for research on women in the north. We've been wanting to update fact sheets, like the fact sheet on violence against women and the fact sheet on immigrant and refugee women, for a long time. Just recently we h