Status of Women committee I absolutely agree with Lana. I think it needs to start really early. The issue of stable funding and continuous funding is a big issue. We have some great projects, and they all end after either a year or two years. ISANS has 120 staff, but not one staff member has a contract b
February 5th, 2015Committee meeting
Gerry Mills
Status of Women committee I can talk about the work we've done with foreign credential recognition. We have, I think, 11 or 12 multi-stakeholder tables. I'll just give you one example. There's a multi-stakeholder table for internationally educated pharmacists. Around that table will sit the educational in
February 5th, 2015Committee meeting
Gerry Mills
Status of Women committee In terms of the amount of funding, it's under $200,000. I would just like to bring up what one of the other witnesses said. It's like many of the projects that NGOs provide across the country. This one, in particular, has a two-year span. At the end of two years, it will finish a
February 5th, 2015Committee meeting
Gerry Mills
Status of Women committee No, it's just finishing.
February 5th, 2015Committee meeting
Gerry Mills
Status of Women committee Yes, we do. We receive funding from Citizenship and Immigration Canada and ESDC—that's federal funding—and then we receive provincial funding as well.
February 5th, 2015Committee meeting
Gerry Mills
Status of Women committee We have 120 staff, so about half of our funding is federal and half of it is provincial. With federal funding, we provide services to refugees. So, literally, it's picking people up at the airport, giving them temporary accommodation, permanent accommodation, getting the kids in
February 5th, 2015Committee meeting
Gerry Mills
Status of Women committee I apologize. When the interpreters are not in the room, they're not very evident. I will slow down. So we also know that, generally, immigrant women want to be free of their abuse, not of the abuser. They come here and they're very vulnerable. They don't know people outside thei
February 5th, 2015Committee meeting
Gerry Mills
Status of Women committee Thank you. Good morning. My name is Gerry Mills, and this is my colleague, Nanok Cha. We're from ISANS, Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia. ISANS is the only multi-service settlement agency for immigrants in Nova Scotia and the largest immigrant settlement agency in t
February 5th, 2015Committee meeting
Gerry Mills