Health committee  That is an interesting concept, isn't it? Yes, our front-line workers would be eligible for it. We already built it in. We already did that for ourselves, recognizing that on a wing and a prayer, in going 24 hours, we needed to have all clean hands on deck. We did institute a num

Health committee  Yes, we have definitely made that case; I'm on record. I sent a letter to our Prime Minister and to our province and to the various ministries within the federal government making that request for the reasons you articulated here. We recognize that there is already a lot of gende

Health committee  Thank you so much for the question and for the comments, and for setting out the context of rural Canada and rural Saskatchewan. I have so much love for Saskatchewan. It's a beautiful part of the world. Yes, everything you said is correct. For women in rural communities, everyth

Health committee  Mr. Fisher.

Health committee  Fiona, do you want to respond?

Health committee  Yes, we could easily double that $10 million that has been earmarked for.... And thank you for your comments, Honourable Jenny Kwan. I will share them with our team. The challenges that we have right now are not going to stop. We've already had a pandemic. We're moving into th

Health committee  We need core funding. Our services our essential, especially now during this pandemic, which has not ceased. We do not have core funding in the same way that health services do, and that is required. If we really understood how significant the social problem is, with its extraord

Health committee  My apologies to the interpreters and to those listening. The time to act is now. Core funding is one major thing that Canada can do right now to make a measurable difference for women victims of violence today.

Health committee  Women are stratified in Canada, so the experience of gender violence is overlaid by other aspects. The amount of violence, deaths and disappearances among indigenous women is higher due to the very reality of their status within Canada. They have been deemed to have a lower statu

Health committee  I always hope very much that the Canadian government would recognize how important women are in Canada from an intersectional lens and would understand that gender-based violence is one of the most pressing issues for us, whether it's sexual harassment, sexual assault or domestic

Health committee  Interestingly, the first part of my professional life was working with men who were court ordered to what we call “batterer's treatment”. That is a piece of expertise I have, and I pay close attention to it, but there has not been an investment in that. There has been an investme

Health committee  We wanted sufficient advertising and media attention to this issue. Every time we had media or did campaigns through social media, our calls increased, and we're not the only ones who had that experience. That was really important for women to find a way. If they knew that servic

Health committee  You're welcome.

Health committee  We're seeing that it's about split down the middle between women who are leaving without children—either their children are in care or are older or in some other situation—and women who have one or up to six children, depending on how large the family is.

Health committee  Unfortunately not. I think that was a really important investment in funding for shelters and sexual assault services. Organizations like Battered Women's Support Services, and 500 organizations all across the country provide similar services to ours—not specifically sexual viole