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Status of Women committee  Thanks. I'm leading the response for Minister Bennett under the Crown-Indigenous Relations department. The government has been reviewing the recommendations since they came out. There were very helpful interim recommendations and very extensive interim recommendations, so we've

January 30th, 2018Committee meeting

Margaret Buist

Status of Women committee  I can talk to you a little bit about our family violence prevention programming. We have significant family violence prevention programming, and we also have shelter funding on reserve for both the construction and the operation of shelters. As I said earlier, the family violen

January 30th, 2018Committee meeting

Margaret Buist

Status of Women committee  A broad range of educational and social programming is available to first nations women on reserve. It's not specifically targeted to women who have experienced incarceration. There's programming for family violence prevention. A whole suite of educational programming is designed

January 30th, 2018Committee meeting

Margaret Buist

Status of Women committee  It's a really good point. Many of our programs are proposal-based—for example, our urban indigenous program. There are proposals for job skills training that are specifically targeted to men and women who have been incarcerated. It's the same with our other programming. When we g

January 30th, 2018Committee meeting

Margaret Buist

Status of Women committee  I think Indigenous Services can talk about the mental health issues, but in terms of the corrections system, that would be the Correctional Service of Canada. My colleague Mary Kapelus will speak to the mental health issue.

January 30th, 2018Committee meeting

Margaret Buist