Status of Women committee  Again, the landscape is just kind of changing. I don't think it's necessarily new. I've been there since 1991 and I don't necessarily think it is new. It's just that we are way more aware of it. There is more public awareness of them, so people are a little more comfortable talki

Status of Women committee  All of it, yes.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  The impact for us has to do with being able to understand the stuff that's rolling out that legally impacts women. We're not often consulted about a lot of things, including what will happen to women during processes of the law.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Can I add something to that?

Status of Women committee  I'm just thinking as you're talking about it, when new technology.... New technology makes our jobs very difficult. More recently there are things like apps. Google does its Google map thing and then all of a sudden our addresses are online. I'm pretty sure it's not rocket scienc

Status of Women committee  There's no downtime.

Status of Women committee  We've done a bunch of different things. One of them is going into schools. High schools are actually much easier to get into. I don't know if it's because they're older and can make those decisions. However, getting into the elementary schools is not so easy. Quite frankly, it wo

Status of Women committee  Totally. We're a 32-bed shelter and we have 14 bedrooms, so you have 14 women and you have 18 that are going to be kids. Often we will go over that if we have to. Again, engaging men in work that we do is really.... I think that landscape is kind of changing—

Status of Women committee  —from when I started to where we're going. There's definitely more of a need for us to engage men in the work we're doing.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  I'm going to try to figure out all of what you've asked. I'm very familiar in terms of what happened this week in Toronto. I'm not familiar with the specifics of that case. It's probably very similar to a lot of situations that happen if a woman returns. There are other things th

Status of Women committee  Thank you, honourable members of the study. Thank you for the opportunity to address the committee and share with you my experience as a survivor of violence against women, as a front-line worker and as a lead of a shelter for abused women and children, and as someone who has spe