Finance committee  Given that the consequences of not providing adequate financial support to allow women or men to leave a violent setting can be fatal, I think it is worth extending leave, and frankly paid leave, even to people who are experiencing domestic violence and may have been charged as a

Finance committee  Yes. As it is presented in the current bill, it would exclude that class of people. I would not exclude them, even though I understand that on the face of it, it sounds as if you're supporting abusers, which obviously you don't want to do. However, to leave out the people who wou

Finance committee  This might be a case in which it would be useful to go to the provinces where they have dual charging, as they do in Ontario, and talk to them about how they're dealing with this problem. It may be that you have a charge and then it's dropped, because it's recognized as it procee

Finance committee  I'm not aware of other jurisdictions where the leave is paid. My understanding is that leave has been introduced in a couple of jurisdictions in Canada, but it's been unpaid leave. I understand that deciding who is eligible is a difficult situation. I understand the distaste in

Finance committee  Good evening. My name is Kate McInturff, and I am a senior researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. I would like to thank the committee for inviting me to speak today. The government's decision to include gender-based analysis in the federal budget is an import

Finance committee  Women's organizations often get caught in this catch-22. They're being asked to present the rationale for funding and they don't have funding to do research or to track the success or failures of their programs. Then they end up in front of municipalities and provinces and federa

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Sure. The Dutch fund was set up after the millennium development goals were established, to support achieving the gender equality goals that were part of that. It was funding for women's organizations outside of the Netherlands, in low-income countries. Ten years ago, it was appr

Finance committee  Absolutely. The per capita number I have is based on spending across agencies and departments. I should be clear that not every department fully discloses where its grants go, so it's my best estimate. That was just for spending on violence against women. That came to just under

Finance committee  I'd like to thank the committee for inviting me to speak today. Today men and women in Canada have equal levels of education, ambition, and capacity. However, they are treated differently within our economy and our society. Men and women work in different occupations, at differe

Status of Women committee  The disproportionate burden of unpaid work.

Status of Women committee  It's violence against women.

Status of Women committee  We can listen to them, and that means we need to support women's organizations to speak about women's experiences of discrimination. I think my colleagues from Canada Without Poverty can speak to this as well, but if you're a woman living in a situation of domestic violence, you

Status of Women committee  I'll do my best to speak to it. It's a little outside my expertise. The non-traditional field that I have spent some time looking at is the oil and gas sector, just because we've seen investments in moving women into that field. There was a very good study of women in the mining

Status of Women committee  The $12.2 billion number comes from two reports that were issued by Justice Canada over the last couple of years. They look at the self-reported rates of intimate partner violence—and sexual assault in another study—and they calculate the number based largely on academic research