Status of Women committee  I would be very happy to provide that.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for your question. As a mother living in Quebec, I had the pleasure of paying no more than $10 a day in child care expenses. So I suggest that you look instead at the pilot projects under way in Quebec, to see what should be done. New inclusive spaces should

Status of Women committee  It's a big statistic, isn't it?

Status of Women committee  I can tell you more about that. When I arrived in 2007, I was told that 15% of women had a disability, and I didn't believe it. Then in 2017, Statistics Canada said it was 24%, and I still didn't believe it. Now, according to Statistics Canada data from December, it's 30%. That'

Status of Women committee  I was over the moon when the national child care strategy was first announced and have been quite disappointed, as I mentioned before, because there has been no focus on ensuring that this is an opportunity to rethink child care, not just around what buildings look like but also

Status of Women committee  I do.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. Also, thanks very much for what you are doing with respect to the guaranteed basic income. I would say it's been important to support the Canada disability benefit and to understand that one of the things we've felt, as a community, is a bit of a trade-off b

Status of Women committee  Our head office is currently in Montreal, Quebec. I completely agree with the proposal you are talking about. The volunteer sector has been in decline for years, and we need not wonder why. As you mentioned, there really are gaps. First of all, we don't always understand how he

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for bringing that up. Despite the forthcoming introduction of the Canada benefit, which I've spoken about quite often, we have concerns. We know that once this benefit is in place, women with disabilities will be at high risk of experiencing another type of v

Status of Women committee  We all want to know how we can get the federal, provincial and territorial governments to work better. I really appreciate what you brought up. The issue of transportation is so important for women with disabilities across the country. I'm so glad you brought it up. I know of ma

Status of Women committee  I think there's a lot of work to do around educating people to start with. Certainly, a big component of DAWN Canada's work is educating people about the kinds of situations that you're describing. Again, we can start with an example by leading at the federal level and showing th

Status of Women committee  No problem. I'll leave off here with something that all of you have heard me talk about a great deal. It is a huge problem. That's gender-based violence and the reality that gender-based violence is one of the reasons that women with disabilities experience higher rates of pover

Status of Women committee  That's fine. No problem.

Status of Women committee  Good morning and thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee peoples here in Ottawa and the unceded Kanien'kéha nation's territory of Tiohtià:ke, also known as Montreal, where both our offices ar

Status of Women committee  I'm going to go to the recommendations that we wrote. Address the systemic barriers that make women and girls with disabilities and other groups more vulnerable to trafficking: isolation, social exclusion, discrimination, low income, poverty, housing precarity and inadequate acc