Status of Women committee  No, I didn't say that. It's not a program.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the question. Similar to what you were saying, the Government of Canada has been very focused on this issue. Obviously, cyberbullying and cyberviolence have a devastating impact on families and on communities, and particularly on those specific individual

Status of Women committee  The economic action plan has been very focused on families. The most substantive things have all been focused around making sure that funds are put back in the pockets of parents. We have been very focused. As I mentioned before, this government has lowered taxes multiple times.

Status of Women committee  As I just said, we have an economic action plan 2015 that is about lowering taxes and increasing benefits for Canadians. That is a package. With respect to the universal child care benefit, every Canadian family with a child will see an augmentation. For those who have children

Status of Women committee  With respect to the family tax cut, over 50% of Canadian families will benefit from that. That's a cut in taxes, a lowering of taxes, which is something our government has been very focused on. As I mentioned earlier, this is about taking funds and putting them back in the pocket

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the question. As I had mentioned at the outset, Status of Women Canada has, since 2007, supported well over 780 programs across the country. Our focus is on the community project. Canada is an extremely large country. We know that the needs and focuses in

Status of Women committee  I'm delighted to say, and my agency head Meena Ballantyne will confirm, that I think over 1,500 individuals in the public service have taken the GBA+ web-based education. I'm delighted to say that I think all of us here at this table have done so, and I would encourage every parl

Status of Women committee  Sure, no problem.

Status of Women committee  You want an entire list of the, I guess, more than 25 or 30 departments that are involved in the GBA action plan?

Status of Women committee  Every component part of policy development for the Government of Canada has a requirement for GBA, so we do that for each piece of policy that moves forward.

Status of Women committee  Again, as I mentioned before, GBA isn't a program or an enforcement mechanism. GBA is a sensitization program to make sure that when individuals are making a policy decision they are taking into account gender balance. If you're asking whether this is an enforcement mechanism, n

Status of Women committee  You'll see—and I'll have Meena Ballantyne walk you through this—that the overall decrease of $6,000 in operating expenditures is a combination of a decrease in web renewal, a decrease in funding allocated to the Canadian School of Public Service, and a decrease for sunsetting of

Status of Women committee  The government was pleased to support the motion. That's what it was. We've been very clear that when you look across the board at whether these items should be taxed, they should not be. Our government has been very clear. We've reduced taxes on Canadians over 160 times since c

Status of Women committee  As I've said, we have supported the motion. I'm delighted that we did so, and we'll continue to promote that. I think it was the appropriate and smart thing to do, because it lowers a tax on Canadians.

Status of Women committee  In June of 2014 I launched a report called “Good For Business”. You can get a copy of it on the Status of Women website. It outlines a number of initiatives to increase the number of women that we have on boards with an aspirational goal of 30% by 2019. That focuses on the fact