Status of Women committee  I've been with the department for about a year and a half. Most of my experience has been with ESDC, working on social programming and employment programming.

Status of Women committee  Over the last three years, and since I came into the department, there's definitely been an increase in capacity—about four times the amount of support contributing to the work we are doing. Because we've received a large number of new programming dollars, there has been support

Status of Women committee  I would say that we're familiar with, but not in a position to speak to, the details of the report.

Status of Women committee  The men and boys strategy and the participation of men and boys in the development of the work that we've been doing around gender-based violence has been very important. As you've noted, there was and is a commitment to continue to work on that piece, looking at how men and bo

Status of Women committee  There was $1.8 million committed to focus on this particular initiative. Right now, we're working on what type of pilot projects we would be able to support that would continue the work at looking towards building a men and boys strategy. At this point, we are still in that proce

Status of Women committee  It's an excellent question. Many of us work very closely with our partners on the ground in communities. I think the thing that we are most proud of at WAGE is that in anything we've been doing over the last few years, we've been doing in consultation with our stakeholders. We

Status of Women committee  As I said, we just met with our gender-based violence advisory council earlier this week. The strategy for the federal government is to invest over $200 million in the prevention and addressing of gender-based violence. Our department, WAGE, has one of the program elements that

Status of Women committee  That program is not specifically focused in WAGE, so we will get further information and get back to you on that, if that's okay.

Status of Women committee  As I said earlier, I think that the need to continuously improve how we're doing this work is definitely recognized. The agency's becoming a department is one of those steps for sure. Having the capacity to develop a central support function, to have a centre of expertise that wi

Status of Women committee  Okay.

Status of Women committee  As we mentioned earlier, we are partners with DND in assisting them with any type of information they might require, whether it's data or research, and providing them with advice and guidance, as well as access to our advisory councils to support the work they are doing. As I s

Status of Women committee  There's been a tremendous amount of work going on over the last number of years on GBA+. The minister raised a few points. The agency's becoming a department under legislation is one really critical factor, and the budgeting act is another. The fact that it's mandatory for all T

Status of Women committee  I'll start with an answer, and I may turn it over to Lisa as well to provide some further comments. Right now we're working with the LGBTQ2 secretariat to determine how the funding we received in the 2019 budget will be spent. A lot of the focus is around building the capacity

Status of Women committee  As the minister mentioned, there was nearly $2 billion set aside in budget 2019 for the women's entrepreneurship strategy. The four pillars of that strategy are helping women-led businesses grow—part of that is around skills development and networking—increasing access to capital

Status of Women committee  That's an excellent question. Thank you. We had officials from that department join us earlier this week as part of our gender-based violence advisory committee. We had colleagues there explaining and working with the committee members to give an overview of all the work they ar