Status of Women committee  Given the reality of why I was invited to come, the fact that women are the fastest-growing prison population, and the links that has to women's inequality generally, it strikes me that a report card of the kind that was done some years ago, which resulted in the status of women

Status of Women committee  I think fundamentally we have to talk about reinserting national standards. Those of us who are long enough in the tooth to have been around at the time the Canada assistance plan was eliminated didn't think that plan was the best. We wanted to see stronger and more enduring nati

Status of Women committee  Your point is well taken. If I sounded as though I was saying that all of these resources are there right now, then I need to correct myself, because most of the resources that I'm talking about have been systematically eliminated. Social services, education, and health care have

Status of Women committee  I would recommend that the committee review the Parliamentary Budget Officer's review of Bill C-25, as it then was. We've already had the stats that a third of the women serving federal jail sentences are indigenous. In one of the appendices for that document, the Parliamentary B

Status of Women committee  It has not been followed through on, no.

Status of Women committee  When I said “the backlash”, I meant that it's very clear that we are seeing increased charging. As women call the police for protection, they're increasingly likely to also be charged if they have used any kind of defensive force, so we have a large number of women in prison now

Status of Women committee  I just want to go back. I know that the issue of family violence, domestic violence, has been on the government's agenda, and on various governments' agendas, for many years. The challenge is that it has been de-gendered in a way that has caused some problems. There were some pr

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, but I will speak English. One of the challenges with fetal alcohol is that it's a raced and gendered way to blame women for issues the state doesn't want to deal with. When I met with pediatricians a few years back, when we first started working on this issue, a numbe

Status of Women committee  As has already been discussed by the other women on this panel, who have done incredible work in their own right in their own communities both individually and within organizations, we could go back to some of the very basic recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal P

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Ms. Neville. As we discussed, one of the things that I noticed when I first started working exclusively with women and girls, and in particular with the indigenous women and girls, was the number who had entered guilty pleas and had not even gone through the

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. Thank you to the committee for inviting us to present. I'll keep my comments brief in the interest of being able to answer some of the questions from the committee. In reviewing some of the proceedings, I realized some questions have come up, so I will try

Justice committee  We don't have them right across the country currently, and it's left to individuals to fund them themselves, largely.

Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  I have no reason to believe it. It certainly hasn't applied to women at all. None of them who were denied have reapplied.

Justice committee  That's correct.