Status of Women committee  I think that if we don't have good data, a couple of things happen. We don't close the door on “that can't be”, so we can't end the debate about what is actually happening and the pervasiveness of violence against women and girls in the country. Without data we're vulnerable to h

Status of Women committee  No, I think data has to be both qualitative and quantitative because it's a way for the young people, girls and women, to have their voices heard. When they want to be anonymous, they can be anonymous and still report what happened to her. Well done qualitative and quantitative d

Status of Women committee  I love growth trajectories for sure. We are actually out there every day and every hour with our Because I am a Girl campaign. We are working in hundreds of schools across the country where girls are initiating their own actions and activities. We're very active on social media

Status of Women committee  Sure. Best practice is always contextualized to communities and the readiness of young people to participate. Sometimes you have to lay the conditions and create a safe space where young people can feel that they can participate and be respected for views that may not be in the

Status of Women committee  Since 2007, $146 million has been invested to support 720 community-based programs across the country, with nearly half of those dedicated to ending violence against women and girls. I believe that people are trying to do what's right, provide funding, and to learn, etc., but if

Status of Women committee  If you haven't heard from them yet, I believe the John Howard Society would be able to provide terrific insights to this committee on the diversion programs they offer in the physical assault area. I'll defer to Todd in terms of his understanding of the programming around sexual

Status of Women committee  Absolutely.

Status of Women committee  That's true. In empowering young boys and girls to speak up and to take a stand and giving them the confidence to do that, I think they'll lead the way for us.

Status of Women committee  I could start, but I think my colleagues will have something to say. I'm not sure what we can do about those negative images and the stereotypes in terms of shutting them down, because we live in a free and open society. What we can do is strengthen the other side so that those

Status of Women committee  There are so many of these projects across the country, and it is a patchwork of holes across the country. There are some amazing things happening in certain provinces and in certain school boards. Toronto District School Board is doing some very good work. But we don't know any

Status of Women committee  Sure. It would be to provide sufficient support to Statistics Canada to collect and consolidate desegrated national data, so that we can be informed on an evidence basis on the information for policy initiatives that we are going to be taking.

Status of Women committee  In my earlier remarks, what I said was that really there is an accident of birth in Canada that should not be allowed. Whether I'm born a child of a first generation family, whether I'm born as an aboriginal child, whether I'm born in a remote region or an urban region, the servi

Status of Women committee  Specifically, what I would love to table with the committee is the national action plan of the Government of Australia. The Government of the United Kingdom did a very accessible national action plan in 2010. From a Canadian perspective, in terms of our complex federal system of

Status of Women committee  We work in about 103,000 communities within those countries. We're very much a community-based organization. Each of those countries has a strategic plan, a country strategic plan that is in formation over a couple of years of massive consultation with those tens of thousands of

Status of Women committee  The cross-fertilization is both through the strategic plans and then through third party evaluations and assessments of the work done, which is all public information and knowledge. We also have what's called the Plan Academy, where that work comes together with trained educators