Status of Women committee  Well, thank you. The bystander concept, if you will, really has applications at all different levels. It means that everybody in a given community needs to be part of the solution. By the way, if you're a principal of a high school, you have an enormous platform of influence. If you don't do prevention programming for your staff, faculty, and students, and if you don't engage with various domestic and sexual violence programs in the community and have them come in and do their work, etc., then in a sense you're being a passive bystander in the face of abusive behaviour that's going on.

Status of Women committee  I appreciate that, but some of these sentimental people also have two sides, right?

Status of Women committee  I probably know who you are talking about, but we can't be perfect. We can just do what we can. These are global problems and they are trans-generational problems. We're going to live and die and they are still going to be huge problems. We just have to figure out what we can do in our time, and in our familial, professional, and political spheres of influence.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much—and I'd love to work with the Winnipeg Jets.

Status of Women committee  I'll give you an example of what I'm talking about. The University of Northern Iowa, with which I've been working for a number of years, has the Center for Violence Prevention, where they've started to take some of these ideas and some of my work and my colleagues' work to a different level.

Status of Women committee  I appreciate that. One way is through the training of the educators on the front end before they get to the school. Another way is to build it into the curriculum itself—in other words, not just an add-on class but in health, in the social sciences, in life skills classes. But you have to have trained people doing it.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Those are two important questions. You probably didn't want to say the name of the artist. You don't have to, but maybe I could. This is just one parent to another, if you will. Everybody has to make decisions. I never tell people what they need to do. Everybody has to make decisions.

Status of Women committee  They are.

Status of Women committee  Yes, you're right. Thank you very much. I would love to work with him.

Status of Women committee  I appreciate the question. I understand we're all limited by time. I know I can be pretty verbose, and I know there's so much more to this than we can possibly get to in this setting. I've written about it, and I've thought a lot about this question, about celebrity culture and the excuses people make for behaviour by certain individuals.

Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  Yes, I think this has been a fabulous development in Canada, as well as in the world, really. I think the EVA BC and Lions partnership has taken this work to a different level; obviously I'm part of this as well. The campaign consists of, among other things, a public service piece where you have professional football players from the BC Lions Football Club doing public service announcements on television, radio, and billboards.

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry.

Status of Women committee  Yes, I'm directly involved with all the CFL teams I just referenced, and I hope with more. We started in the western provinces and are kind of moving our way a little bit east; that's how it has been working, at least. I'm definitely involved in that. We haven't worked systematically yet with NHL teams, which I think is the next step.

Status of Women committee  No, this isn't the federal government White Ribbon. What I was just talking about specifically was the Be More Than a Bystander campaign with the Canadian Football League teams. MVP Strategies, which is my organization, is sort of the partner, the United States partner. White Ribbon is a great organization, a Canadian-started organization obviously, that's worldwide and that I have friends and colleagues in all over the world, including in Canada.