Status of Women committee  The model we've always used is that we are there as facilitators. We're there to provide the training, but our goal has been to enable other departments, because whether we dedicated all resources within Status of Women to gender-based analysis or just the existing ones, we could

Status of Women committee  I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to do so. It would vary enormously from initiative to initiative, so it would be impossible, because GBA affects everything from climate change to much more distinct initiatives. It would be impossible to put a time frame on that.

Status of Women committee  We really have not looked at it in that way. It's supposed to be part of everybody's training and job descriptions, and departments have seen it that way as well. For example, ISED, the industry department, has made it mandatory for all of their employees to take GBA training,

Status of Women committee  I would just add that most or many universities offer very good women's studies programs. It's a very good foundational kind of training for gender-based analysis going forward, if you're asking about formal university and college settings.

Status of Women committee  Perhaps. I don't think that we can give a complete answer right now about whether or not GBA itself is part of public policy programs. If you like, we could do the research and get back to the committee.

Status of Women committee  Go ahead.

Status of Women committee  The Auditor General's report talked about barriers to gender-based analysis. They pointed to a number of factors. Some of it was leadership, some of it was time, some of it was resources and focus being put on that issue specifically. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, we ar

Status of Women committee  We do get a lot of questions about the plus, which is to ensure people take into consideration full diversity. It becomes clear when people go through our training. The training is developed for adult education. It's extremely accessible. I'm hoping that most of your members have

Status of Women committee  It has to do with leadership and with time. There are a number of barriers that may have also got in the way of doing good GBA in the past. The 30 departments that were part of our action plan had gender focal points, and they've had gender champions in their departments who are

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to the committee for inviting Status of Women Canada back on an issue so near and dear to our hearts. So I will discuss Status of Women's role in promoting gender-based analysis, or GBA. Gender-based analysis has been a Government of Canada

Status of Women committee  We talked at length about whether or not this would be a repeat of the best practices study. That was not the goal. It was Status of Women that put forward the suggestion for the study, and the goal was to shine a spotlight on some areas of violence against young women that we kn

Status of Women committee  I'll speak from the point of view of Status of Women, the minister being very involved in the engagement process related to the upcoming inquiry on missing and murdered indigenous women. It's something that was spoken about extensively by family members when they were engaged o

Status of Women committee  The question is best asked of the departments. ESDC, CMHC, and INAC on reserve are responsible for that funding. One of the principles behind the funding was that, by making so much more funding available to the provinces and territories for the construction and the wraparound se

Status of Women committee  Sorry. I might just add that the former iteration of FEWO did a study on best practices to reduce violence against women. It wasn't focused on the issues we're discussing today, particularly on violence that affects young women and these kinds of issues that we know a little bit

Pay Equity committee  In my presentation I mentioned the factors that contribute to the wage gap, but there's a variety of different items right now in the mandate letters of various ministers that could actually play into the wage gap. There's developing a national child care framework, working on a