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Status of Women committee Thank you. To go back to the issue of research, while we don't have nationally representative statistics, there is a growing body of research on the impacts of the resource extraction industry on indigenous women and girls. The member has pointed to some of those. We need to lo
May 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee That is very kind. Thank you. I was just going to say that if we take a look at the impacts that the member has mentioned in terms of mental health and sexual health, and the impacts of sexual violence on indigenous women and girls in the resource extraction industry, it all com
May 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee Thanks, Minister. As the minister pointed out, there is $11 million in research and knowledge mobilization. We acknowledge that there isn't national data with respect to the impacts of resource extraction on indigenous women and girls and violence, and we need to fix that. Part
May 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee Through the federal strategy, as the minister said, we've spent over $30 million in research since 2017, and that has given us three new national surveys, including an ability to better understand intimate partner violence. Through that strategy, since 2015, we've also invested $
April 1st, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee It was the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada that I mentioned previously. Since we have already mentioned that, I want to mention one more that's really important, which is the FOXY program in the Northwest Territories. It's a phenomenal program that's won an Arcti
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee In terms of some best practices, WAGE has provided a million dollars in funding to Women's Shelters Canada, which produced an interactive map of shelters. Because of that, over 75,000 people were able—
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee I can take that question, Madam Chair. The short answer is yes, absolutely.
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee WAGE recently provided nearly $700,000 to the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada, which is taking action to ensure that sexual health education programs—comprehensive sexual health education in schools, for example—are more effective at addressing the harmful gender
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee The short answer is absolutely. Since the pandemic started, WAGE has invested nearly $100 million in more than 1,200 shelters, sexual assault centres and other organizations providing supports to people experiencing gender-based violence. Because of that, more than 1.3 million w
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Lisa Smylie
Status of Women committee As we all know, reducing rates of gender-based violence is going to take some time. On the road to that, we've achieved some concrete results. For example, with the funding from the federal gender-based violence strategy given to our department, WAGE, alone, we've provided fundin
February 4th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Lisa Smylie