Status of Women committee  Thank you, Karen, for saying that. Actually, I've been thinking about what my co-witness Ms. Boucher said about project-based funding. To your question about what we can do to have this happen immediately, I think one of the things is to put less emphasis on project-based fundin

Status of Women committee  I think an important factor, when you're looking at what programming is going to serve that community best, is looking at the cultural appropriateness of such intervention. If you're able to tap into that to get the buy-in from the user—and the user in this case is the newcomer w

Status of Women committee  Sure, I'll address this one. Thank you so much for the question. The overarching issue with newcomer women, social isolation and social integration is that we need to talk about the systemic racism that is entrenched in that aspect. Not only are they facing multiple barriers, no

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Karen. That's such a great question. As an organization that provides services to women with respect to employment, settlement and language services, it's something that typically does not get disclosed, because there is, as mentioned in Karen's opening remarks, this