Justice committee  Matters of courts and the law are outside of my expertise, so I cannot comment.

Justice committee  Thank you for raising a really important issue. It's something that's been talked about quite extensively in terms of the impact of COVID-19 on gender-based violence more broadly, and in particular, as you pointed out, intimate partner violence. The research and data that we do

Justice committee  I will have to defer to my justice colleagues on this. It's outside of the scope of my expertise and knowledge.

Status of Women committee  Our work at WAGE doesn't involve us being intimately familiar with all of the discussions that go on as part of the GBA+ process, so I'm not able to speak to any specific initiative that is the purview of another department. In terms of whether GBA+ was applied at the beginning,

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. I'll start by talking about what GBA+ is and what GBA+ is not. GBA+ is a tool that we use to take a look at how people are impacted by issues differently, how different groups are impacted differently, so that we can develop tailored, targeted poli

Status of Women committee  We know that in economic crises women are disproportionately affected. As the minister pointed out in the last hour, we saw it in the 2008 recession and we're seeing it now. I can give you some examples of how that's happening now. In March when we saw lockdowns, women experien

Status of Women committee  Over the past few years we've invested tens of millions of dollars in getting new data. With budget 2016 we invested $1.5 million per year to get the data needed for GBA+. With our GBV strategy we invested over $30 million in data, and then with budget 2018, another $5 million in

Status of Women committee  In terms of data on a whole related to gender, there were pockets of data. What I can say is, prior to 2015 there was no focus to...research team at Status of Women to shepherd this data collection.

Status of Women committee  I do have a bit of data in front of me. When we take a look at, for example, labour force participation, we see that women's labour force participation is slightly lower for immigrant women than for other women in Canada. It's the same for immigrant men's labour force participati

Status of Women committee  The barriers are so complex, and perhaps different for each of those groups. While we don't like to think about it, some of those barriers are unconscious or conscious bias, so we have to shift the culture, shift cultural attitudes towards certain groups. We also need to create

Status of Women committee  The majority of our statistics come from databases held by Statistics Canada. They compile quite a number of data sources, such as labour force participation and tax holdings. They bring that all together. That's where we get our data.

Status of Women committee  I'd have to look into what data is available to disaggregate by. The difficulty with data is that sometimes when you drill down into certain groups they're so small that numbers can't be released. I'd have to go back and verify what we can and cannot provide. One thing you menti

Status of Women committee  When we developed the gender results framework, we did a really comprehensive scan of what was going on in Canada and where we were seeing gaps in gender equality. We also worked with international partners and took a look at international models and frameworks and distilled all

Status of Women committee  This would be the purview of ESDC, so they'd be in a better position to talk about the progress on those initiatives. What I can say is that we worked very closely with ESDC in the early stages of this, providing technical expertise and our research. We continue to do so as they

Status of Women committee  Just to add to that, going back to the sexual health education, within the federal government the Public Health Agency of Canada leads on this piece. We recently provided technical advice and guidance on the Canadian guidelines for sexual health education that have now been relea