I would agree 100% with Lenore. We definitely are missing a national strategy that includes those three key areas. I think we need to focus more in Canada on preventing sexual and domestic violence. I think these areas are still very much hidden from the criminal justice system; victims don't report these crimes and it's probably not going to change unless we focus a lot more financial resources in this area. The majority of victimization in Canada is happening in these areas, and that's not reflected in police statistics and criminal court statistics because many of these cases never come to that point. If women are able to, they're escaping to shelters on their own and the criminal justice system is not necessarily becoming involved and perpetrators being sent to prison in every case, so we need to concentrate on early intervention and prevention.
On October 21st, 2014. See this statement in context.