Status of Women committee  I would go in the same direction as my colleague and suggest that Public Safety would be a better interlocutor on this front to describe the types of police training. We know some of these courses definitely provide training of that nature, but they can speak to that.

Status of Women committee  One area that has been very poorly examined is hyper-sexualization and de-normalization of violence in young women's lives. There's probably a bigger gap there than anywhere else in terms of what we have seen available.

Status of Women committee  The universities.

Status of Women committee  The institutions themselves. Many are looking into that. There are, again, leaders amongst the pack that are developing best practices. Those are the types of issues and successes that we're trying to document at this moment.

Status of Women committee  The projects are either close to the end or in their last year at this moment in time. Already we've seen that some projects have been able to engage platform owners, such as Facebook, to have conversations about measures that can be taken to increase safety of women online, part

Status of Women committee  Two types of projects that we funded have seemed particularly promising. Those that educate youth in terms of healthy relationships work with young girls and young boys or young men and young women and set out conversations about appropriate behaviours, appropriate ways to intera

Status of Women committee  The campus projects ended relatively recently and again have resulted in a community of practice of past project proponents that are continuing this conversation. We're actually holding a conversation with them tomorrow to start identifying best practices that flow from their exp

Status of Women committee  Hitting a population of that very young age, because of the jurisdictional issues, tends to be squarely in the provincial realm of responsibility. Our programs tend to be for slightly older people. Our projects will have some impact on youth sometimes as young as 12, but our proj

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. We thought we'd just take the opportunity in a few minutes to set the stage by giving you a little bit of an overview of some of the work and the approaches that we've taken at Status of Women in dealing with the issue of violence against women and girls.

Status of Women committee  As a preface to all this, the action plan for women entrepreneurs brought together a number of initiatives that were in existence in a range of departments. One of the very big pieces was a piece for the Business Development Bank of Canada that had $700 million of funds that they

Status of Women committee  Sure. The information we get is not simply derived from projects. It is also influenced by some of the work that's been done in this committee and identified as best practices. We are not the only holders of levers to implement these. The work done to identify the best practices

Status of Women committee  Two million to three million....

Status of Women committee  That's in multi-year projects over two years.

Status of Women committee  We have some pretty spectacular projects under way. We have a series of projects taking place in the digital economy. They're trying to ensure that women are attracted to the tech world and the information technologies, and once they're in, they're retained and advanced. Through

Status of Women committee  Thanks. You raised some very interesting points, because a few years ago we were looking at some statistics on the rates of intimate partner violence across the country, and an overwhelming majority of the locations were in rural or remote areas, not the larger urban centres or