Status of Women committee  We would have to get back to you on that. In particular, for running in political parties, I'm not familiar.... No. We would have to get back to you, if that's okay.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I missed the last Status of Women FEWO appearance, so I'm happy to be with you today as you undertake to study barriers facing women in politics. Recently we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first women in Canada winning the right to vote in fede

Status of Women committee  As I mentioned, there's been some gender-based analysis done on policy proposals for some time. I don't have an exact date. I think we can easily get that for you. It's probably following Beijing and our commitments to gender-based analysis. In the last two and half years, PCO ha

Status of Women committee  There was. Gender-based analysis has been a mandatory function for many, many years in the federal government in the development of policy and programs.

Status of Women committee  There was an action plan in place before. Status of Women did advise departments to develop action plans.

Status of Women committee  This is the first time for Canada that there has been a GBA of a federal budget.

Status of Women committee  As I mentioned, doing a gender-based assessment has been a mandatory part of memoranda to cabinet for a long time, but there are variations on that theme in terms of how detailed it is.

Status of Women committee  As my colleagues know, it's one of my favourite topics, because when we've appeared here in the last two and a half years, we've talked about this as being like trying to turn a big ship around. I was thinking about it this morning, and I think we're heading kind of southwest at

Status of Women committee  It is part of the gender-based violence strategy to fund a survey of post-secondary education. It's a population-based survey, so it is different from what's going on already in several provinces that do have jurisdiction over universities and campuses. I'll just add that this

Status of Women committee  I'll jump in there. I'm officially the old-timer at Status of Women Canada. I've been there for two and a half years. I have more corporate memory than some of my colleagues. A few years ago, there was an initiative to fund civil society organizations looking at the issue of cam

Status of Women committee  Sure. We do have a team. About half of the people who are anticipated are staffed. Some of them already were in Status of Women and have many years of expertise in the area of gender-based violence across all the different tentacles and all the initiatives going on in different

Status of Women committee  How much time do I have?

Status of Women committee  This should be easy.

Status of Women committee  As you're aware, as probably the whole committee is aware, a progressive trade agenda is a very new concept, and Canada at the moment is showing real leadership in this area. There are some very specific and concrete things that can be achieved through a progressive trade agend

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Hello everyone. I'm very happy to return to this committee. We were here at the beginning, so it's great to have watched your study through the last several months and to have the opportunity to appear again at the closing end of it. This study is timely because pro