Status of Women committee  In terms of the federal strategy on gender-based violence that we have under way right now, we are funding about 60 projects in the department for just over $50 million. These projects are actually working towards providing the supports and pieces that need to be in place to end

Status of Women committee  That's an excellent question. We have programming, as you know. We have the gender-based violence program. We have the women's program capacity-building fund. Through a number of other programs, we're supporting about 650 projects across Canada, distributed across the country, de

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much for that question. It's a really important point that you're raising. As we have been working with the organizations that have been providing support during COVID, children have been a really critical part of that response. We know that the organizations that

Status of Women committee  Thanks very much for the question. I'm going to turn to my colleague Lisa Smylie, who will respond to it.

Status of Women committee  Good morning. There is no five-minute summary. We're just going to jump right into the questions and answers, if that's okay.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for your questions. I'll begin by reiterating some of the pieces that we've put into the response for COVID, in terms of what WAGE has actually put forward. The minister mentioned earlier there has been an investment of $50 million in women's shelters, sexua

Status of Women committee  For sure that is an excellent example of a gender-based analysis approach to the work that you did. As I said earlier, there's a requirement for gender-based analysis work to be done on any programming that's coming into place through memorandums to cabinet, any new programs that

Status of Women committee  I'm going to start on this with the women's entrepreneurship strategy, and then I'm going to turn it over to Suzanne to talk about the strategy. As Minister Monsef spoke about earlier, the women's entrepreneurship strategy was introduced. The amount of money that's available for

Status of Women committee  Oh, sorry.

Status of Women committee  We received money in operating dollars, which is money we can use to have contacts with organizations or to operate within our own organization to hire staff, but we wanted to use that money for community organizations to work in the community, specifically, for this particular f

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. We are looking at figuring out, making sure that we're going to come back in terms of the amount of resources that are going to Manitoba in all of the areas. We've definitely seen, at our quick glance, that there are projects in Manitoba in all of th

Status of Women committee  Okay, great.

Status of Women committee  We would absolutely be happy to do that. There are folks who work in our western region that do visits and outreach in all of the provinces and territories, so that would be no problem.

Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  Yes.