Public Safety committee  I'd say that's not true. I think it has saved lives, for sure. We've had emergency protection orders where people have been threatened with guns, and the police have confiscated them; the person has continued to harass the partner but hasn't killed them.

Public Safety committee  Again, it goes to our conversations with women and with the RCMP around the emergency protection orders, and other incidences of violence. The RCMP use this for every single domestic call they get. Even in cases where they can't get into the community for a day, they still want

Public Safety committee  The YWCA in Yellowknife facilitates emergency protection orders and we do about 90% of them for the whole territory. We work closely with the RCMP, who use the gun registry to identify what guns are in a location, so that they can't be sloughed off when they go to revoke them. Th

Public Safety committee  I'm failing to understand entirely how the lives of Canadians can be taken so lightly.

Public Safety committee  Good morning. Women in the Northwest Territories face extremely high rates of violence in comparison with women in the rest of Canada. The rate of reported sexual assault in the Northwest Territories has been documented at six times the national rate, and shelter use is 4.4 time