Status of Women committee  No, there aren't any. I didn't say a lot about accessibility. That'll be in our official presentation. There's no such thing as physical accessibility or anything related to it.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  As I said, there are four pillars. The first is research, and the second is education. An enormous amount of education has to be done in the shelters concerning policies for establishing programs for accessibility and support for shelters and halfway houses. Politically speaking

Status of Women committee  I do my best, Karen.

Status of Women committee  I don't know the provincial data, but I can tell you without question that the Atlantic region needs much more in the way of resources. A lower populations means they just don't get the right slice of the pie. The north, for sure.... We've been talking a lot about the north, and

Status of Women committee  Yes, they do, no question.

Status of Women committee  The issue of women who have suffered brain trauma is really a very special one. As I mentioned earlier, it's often not diagnosed. These women live with it without realizing they have it. As a result of their behaviour, they can definitely be perceived in a shelter as troublemaker

Status of Women committee  They wind up homeless and sexually exploited. They're human-trafficking victims. The disability rate among women in this situation is enormous. Nearly half of them have a disability. Take the missing and murdered women inquiry and the indigenous women we're talking about in that

Status of Women committee  Go ahead.

Status of Women committee  I'm from the north—the near north, not the far north. It's different depending on where you are in Canada. It very much depends on what type of community you have and what kinds of resources you have to start with. In so many cases—and you heard what Arlene said, that she started

Status of Women committee  Dr. Colantonio, in some of the work she's done, has included looking at a model that comes out of the U.S. that was developed a number of years ago. There are three or four screening questions that can be discreetly included in an intake. It's the kind of thing where if you answe

Status of Women committee  I'm so glad you brought that up, because I was going to say deaf women.... Talk about being underserved. Again, it's their right. There's a human right involved that is not being respected, the right to access to sign language, both ASL and LSQ, the two official sign languages of

Status of Women committee  You should start by reviewing the policies of the federal departments. I don't want to hear any more about GBA plus. We're included in the "plus", and that's really insulting for us; we aren't a "plus". Comparative gender analysis isn't enough. In Canada, that analysis is based

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Ms. Sansoucy. We were very pleased to attend a bilateral meeting with the UN special rapporteur while she was in Montreal. We submitted a five-page document to her outlining our concerns and were very pleased to see she had included some of our recommendations in her

Status of Women committee  Yes.