Status of Women committee  I think there's no question that when women are able to continue in paid employment and have decent working conditions and the like, it's extraordinarily beneficial to them down the road. They benefit socially. They benefit in a myriad of ways. My argument around whether we can i

Status of Women committee  Spending as a percentage of GDP in Canada is at relatively historic lows. I think there is fiscal capacity to increase support and spending for Canadian seniors—women in particular.

Status of Women committee  The cost of medication certainly is a pressing concern for many seniors, just in reviewing their histories....They may or may not have private coverage. There are huge gaps in terms of what the public system covers. As a consequence, seniors who are facing high rents or transport

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry that I don't have all the details at hand, but certainly the proposal we put forward suggests that, in terms of economic costs, it delivers the largest number of benefits to the largest number of people. It certainly is a more efficient model and obviously takes advanta

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much. I'm happy to do that with some specific recommendations. I'll start with this. We were talking about home care. I would encourage the government to increase the amount of monies available to the provinces and territories for home care through the established

Status of Women committee  I was listening to that. I grew up outside the GTA, and it is so true that in our large urban centres we are really facing a home care crisis. Partly it's aging, but the extraordinary diversity, certainly of the GTA community, is putting pressures on a system that simply has not

Status of Women committee  That's a great question and certainly something that, as a researcher, I have been looking at quite closely. The fact of the matter is that we have extraordinarily great resources and information in Canada, but too often they are actually provided at the national level and they

Status of Women committee  Thank you to the committee. As was said, my name is Katherine Scott, and I am a senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives here in Ottawa. I am also the proud mother of Charlotte, who was thrilled to attend the committee on Tuesday, as part of the delegat

Finance committee  Sorry, which plan?

Finance committee  We have a recommendation that we submitted to the finance committee this past August or September on the amount of monies that we're recommending to invest in Status of Women Canada to ensure a vibrant and extensive mandate. It's $100 million per annum. Obviously, a good chunk

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Thank you so much.

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Just as a question, when you say the gender equity part, which bill do you mean, the department or the budgeting provisions?

Finance committee  The gender equality budgeting provisions in the act are fairly broadly scoped out. We certainly believe that the preamble is expansive. It directs the Department of Finance and other agencies to conduct a gender-based analysis on all new budgetary measures, as well as tax expendi