Finance committee  —because often the federal level will fund the infrastructure, but then you have to run the thing, and that's up to the provinces.

Finance committee  If I understood correctly, you said that 400 women didn't have a place to go.

Finance committee  That is very low, actually. The number is much higher than that, and it definitely hasn't changed. On any given day there are hundreds and hundreds of women who need to be turned away from shelters. They've been at capacity for, I'd say, at least a decade. This was one of the r

Finance committee  I believe I explained the transfers in my presentation. Yes, all of those transfers were done. There was a lot of flexibility allowed, so it was really up to the shelters to decide on their priorities. For many of them, it was around human resources, bringing in extra staffing,

Finance committee  Thank you very much for this invitation. My name is Lise Martin, and I am the executive director of Women's Shelters Canada. I come to you today from the unceded territory of the Algonquin nation. We are a national organization representing the 550-plus violence against women'

Status of Women committee  It's in the “Building a National Narrative” report. The two provinces that don't have limits are Ontario and Quebec.

Status of Women committee  I agree there is a role in terms of the mortgage piece, and you've made valid points for a certain number of women. The reality, in terms of the focus of this study, for women in shelters is that most of them would go into social housing. That really is the crux of the problem. T

Status of Women committee  Yes, of how we're addressing violence against women.

Status of Women committee  Sure, I can file the blueprint document. The document was collaboratively developed by 22 provincial and national women's organizations. It addresses the continuum of violence against women. Even though we're talking about shelters here, we all know there's a huge continuum when

Status of Women committee  I'm not sure of the process but I did give it to the clerk of the committee.

Status of Women committee  As I said, the federal government's only program is through CMHC and that is not for operational funding. When shelters want to do additional work or find out a bit more information on the women they're serving, or how to provide better services to the women they're serving, it's

Status of Women committee  That's right. I don't know the full details but the program that was just announced earlier this week by Status of Women Canada seems to be following in that vein. It's called capacity building, but interestingly, you cannot include staff people you already have in the project. I

Status of Women committee  It's not about sustainability. No.

Status of Women committee  Yes, it's a point Tim made about visiting shelters. I would like to extend to all of the members.... Since the House will be in recess the week of November 12, I would encourage all of you to go and visit a violence-against-women shelter. I'm glad to make that connection. You can

Status of Women committee  A national action plan would provide a baseline, and it needs to be resourced. Like the national housing strategy, which provides resources to the provinces and territories, an action plan on violence against women would need to do this in the same sense. We heard on Monday that