• Intersectionality is the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups.
• Cumulative disadvantages and impact faced by those with multiple intersecting oppressions, such as racialized women, women with disabilities, women with children, queer, gender queer and transgender individuals, and those who live at the intersections of multiple identities (including men).
• Understanding intersectionality in your own organization?
• Ensuring those most directly affected by programs or policies play a central role as spokespersons for their own causes
• The need to be inclusive in discussing issues
• The need to gather disaggregated data that includes individuals with intersecting identities

A presentation on Statistics Canada’s Disaggregated Data Action Plan (DDAP), which aims to fill data gaps and provide more representative data collection methods.

• Budget 2021 allocated significant funding to Statistics Canada to implement a DDAP
• This Plan has four guiding principles:
  • Data and analyses should be disaggregated at the lowest level of population detail possible, while respecting quality and confidentiality;
  • Analysis should focus on intersectionality as opposed to binary interactions;
  • Statistics Canada’s approved statistical standards should be used for disaggregation across all programs; and
  • Data should be released at the lowest level of geography possible.
• The DDAP will increase the quality and size of the agency’s data holdings on diverse populations, at various levels of geography and is a key enabler of GBA Plus and intersectional analysis.
• Increased diversity data, and subsequent analyses will help us understand the experiences and outcomes of diverse groups of people in Canada.

Gender budgeting means the systematic application of analytical tools and processes, as a routine part of the budget process, in order to highlight gender equality issues and to inform, prioritise and resource gender-responsive policies.

• Using the tools, techniques and procedures of the budget cycle in a systematic way to promote equality
• Gender budgeting approach.
• The routine availability of gender-disaggregated data
• Embedding of gender specific approaches within the normal annual routines of budgeting

• How different communities are impacted in different ways
• Examples where local, provincial or federal governments have developed policy without input from diverse communities
• Questions that policy makers should be asking of those with intersecting identities and how those questions should be asked