Refine by MP, party, committee, province, or result type.

Results 31-45 of 77
Sort by relevance | Sorted by date: newest first / oldest first

Status of Women committee  We supported a number of projects that related not only to leadership, economic empowerment and violence that does focus on looking at some of the imbalances created in society and making sure we're addressing those imbalances in the projects we support. We have many specific exa

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner

Status of Women committee  I will start, and I'm going to ask Suzanne to add a little. The minister mentioned earlier, and I think we mentioned the last time we were here that the role and the use of GBA+ has expanded so much over the last number of years. We are now required in terms of cabinet submissio

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the question. It's a very direct answer. The $300,000 was in operating budget, as you said. Moving that money into grants and contributions allowed us to do programming for specific projects related to men and boys, because in operating dollars, you can't

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner

Status of Women committee  This allowed us to do projects on the ground to support some of the work that we talked about yesterday related to men and boys. There are four projects that we were working on. I'll list a few of them. There's the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters. Some of the projects were

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner

Status of Women committee  It's working with the University of Calgary

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner

Status of Women committee  Those projects were used to support projects related to men and to build awareness and healthy masculinity.

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner

Status of Women committee  No, there are other projects as well that we were supporting.

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner

Status of Women committee  Those were the only two that we were just talking about. Catalyst was another project, and Foxy and Smash. This project was in the north and related to engaging indigenous youth, particularly young men and boys, on gender equality issues. The issues were very, very relevant in th

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner

Status of Women committee  That's a very good question. None of the projects we just spoke about were specifically working with senior men, but engaging—

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner

Status of Women committee  Yes, I know that. I think when we did the men and boys strategy, 11 round tables took place. It wasn't specifically focused on young men. People from all segments of society were part of those round tables. As the minister spoke about earlier, various issues were raised, not onl

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner

Status of Women committee  We don't have that level of specificity here, but we can get back to you on some of it.

February 25th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner

Status of Women committee  Our programs are not distributed by region or by province.

February 25th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner

Status of Women committee  We ensure that when there is a call for proposals, as an example, there is an effort to make sure that all of the country is represented when we have projects that are operating in every aspect of Canada. That's what we do to make sure it works.

February 25th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner

Status of Women committee  We'll get back to you on that level of specificity.

February 25th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner

Status of Women committee  We work with an FPT table. The minister has colleagues who come together. At that particular meeting there was a discussion around priorities related to gender equality. One of the main priorities that came up and I think was agreed upon was focused on gender-based violence. The

February 25th, 2020Committee meeting

Nancy Gardiner