Status of Women committee  I'm sorry. I thought the question.... Can you repeat the question? I'm sorry.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I think Marie-Claude and Allison pointed out the fact that it is a multifactor problem and we have to make sure that we.... I think we need to coordinate all of our efforts around that issue, because as Marie-Claude said, one of our biggest challenges in Canada is th

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the invitation to take part in your study. I apologize for not being in tiptop shape. I have the flu and have been in bed for two days, but, since the cause is greater than me, I've forced myself to be with you. Thank you for your testimony, Ms. Forsyth. It's over

Canadian Heritage committee  Sport Canada. Certainly the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity, CAAWS, is an ally, but it does not have the same resources as Sport Canada. It is our Canadian association, but it only has one and a half employees. That is completely

Canadian Heritage committee  I have proposed that we create an observatory on women and sport in Canada. That observatory could look after monitoring the statistics and the research. It could also promote best practices. In Quebec, there is an equivalent called the Observatoire québécois du loisir that does

Canadian Heritage committee  Gretchen, you're the sexual harassment expert. It's about the COC, what happened, and the impact it has on our sports organizations as women. Do you want to talk about it?

Canadian Heritage committee  I would say, write to the newspapers, send stories, and make your voice heard. If they don't talk about women's sport, then stop your subscription. We do have a power as consumers of media. I call the radio all the time. They would say that there was a basketball game last night,

Canadian Heritage committee  Just this week in the newspaper La Presse, Karen Paquin, one of our rugby seven bronze medallists, was in the newspaper commenting that you saw the enthusiasm of Canadians around women's sports during the Olympics, so why did it stop right afterwards?

Canadian Heritage committee  Last week, in my equity class, they had to analyze newspapers, and all the students were surprised that they could not find any articles on women's sports. That is the purpose of the paper. Right after the Olympics, boom. The media keeps telling us that people are not interested

Canadian Heritage committee  When the media made a big deal out of the fact that women were winning medals, my first reaction was to remark that if they had followed their training for the previous year, they would not have been surprised. The media took no interest in them, and all of a sudden, they realize

Canadian Heritage committee  Michael Messner is an American researcher whom I adore. He has written that if little boys have women sports coaches or female models in leadership positions, later, in their adult lives, they will consider it normal — not a word I like — for a woman to be in a leadership positio

Canadian Heritage committee  It is very well documented. As Ms. Kerr was saying earlier, we do not have the figures, but when it comes to sponsorships for men's and women's sports, it is day and night. In fact, we almost cannot compare the two situations, because there are so few sponsorships on the women's

Canadian Heritage committee  For me, definitely the parents have their say. We have girls who have been in a family where the father in particular encouraged his daughter to do sports and is totally into it. Definitely there is a huge impact there. For me, the lever would be in the school system with the phy

Canadian Heritage committee  At the NCI in Montreal, at its birth, it was decided right up front in the bylaws to have on its board a 60/40 balance, either 60% female and 40% male, or vice versa. When we talk about having quotas or having those numbers for equity in representation on boards, usually we hea

Canadian Heritage committee  The five issues were around media, girls' participation, homophobia in sport, women coaches, and women in leadership positions. On girls' participation in particular, the numbers show that girls are dropping out of sport by the end of primary school, and in high school, that's d