Evidence of meeting #44 for Status of Women in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was work.
A recording is available from Parliament.
12:55 p.m.
NDP
12:55 p.m.
Author, activist, litigant in Jane Doe v the Toronto Police Force, D.U. LLD, As an Individual
Thank you.
I agree with everything that you're saying. I think there is good data out there. I think there's incredible research out there, magnificent research, specific to violence against women, that has not been incorporated into a data collection process by Statistics Canada. There's so much wonderful stuff out there that we don't know about.
One piece of data that we do have, and that StatsCan has collected, is this: in Canada, a woman is murdered every six days by her male partner. That's a surprise to many of us. Why is that a surprise? The data that we have, we don't believe it and we're certainly not using it or reflecting it.
1 p.m.
NDP
The Chair NDP Hélène LeBlanc
Thank you.
And "merci beaucoup" as we say in the other official language.
Thank you for your passion and your dedication to the cause, not to mention your tremendous contribution to our study. Have a good afternoon.
The committee will meet next on Thursday, at the same time.
The meeting is adjourned.