Status of Women committee  I really can't comment on pending litigation. Again, it's not my area of expertise, with respect to that piece of the litigation.

Status of Women committee  I think our role is to support indigenous women's organizations to help inform what would be public awareness materials that would help to support a better understanding and an applicability of informed consent throughout the health system. We do have partnerships with indigenous

Status of Women committee  We have, in the sense that there is pending litigation on this issue. Also, the Department of Justice has helped us to have an understanding of the historical significance of the issue over time. They are helping us with respect to research of documentation and also a better unde

Status of Women committee  I'm not aware of that, no.

Status of Women committee  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights did table some recommendations, two of which are housed within our department, which are to improve access to public awareness materials on informed consent and on guidance on sterilization procedures. Canada has also accepted the re

Status of Women committee  I'm not a Global Affairs representative. I regret to say that it's just not my area of expertise.

Status of Women committee  I have not been in contact with Global Affairs directly, no.

Status of Women committee  Do you mean, to understand the issue?

Status of Women committee  Oh, I see. I'm sorry. Katherine is saying you're referring also to terminations and potentially other practices.

Status of Women committee  I certainly agree that, in reviewing this issue, we do have to consider other impacts on indigenous women, impacts of racism or discriminatory practices that may be perpetuated in the Canadian health system in various ways, and to work with the medical professionals—and other hea

Status of Women committee  No, we don't have any of that information. There has been some scoping work that has been done through Senator Boyer and Doctor Bartlett's work through the external review. That was specific to Saskatchewan. We don't have national data. We have data on the number of hospitali

Status of Women committee  There would need to be quite a lot of research done to get some statistics of that nature. It will also depend on women coming forward. That needs to be a very culturally safe environment. You would design the research to ensure that indigenous women's organizations lead and are

Status of Women committee  In Senator Boyer's work and Dr. Bartlett's work, a direct connection was made between some of the women who came forward and told their story and their concern about the involvement of child and family services. That was raised as a pretty important factor in the external review

Status of Women committee  The department funds bursaries through Indspire that are specific to the area of health. We have also worked for years in the community to try to support health careers promotion. We did a lot of training of community-based workers as well, to try to identify laddering opportunit

Status of Women committee  We used to have a role model program years ago. It's definitely something that the department can relook at. I think Indspire does quite a lot of work in terms of promoting some of its successful students whom it supported through the end into their careers as well.