Status of Women committee  The Cornell study that I mentioned is available. I can send it to you. They have it on the Hollaback! website, so you can also compare it with other nations and see where that's at. They are in the process of wanting to do another follow-up survey to see if things have gotten better or worse in the past two or three years.

Status of Women committee  We do that work. We like to do that work. It's extremely difficult to get into schools, in the province of Ontario in particular. However, we are big believers in it, particularly if you're doing work on street harassment with young people, 12-year-old or 13-year-old girls. It's important to do that work with them.

Status of Women committee  To the first part of your question, my answer is yes. I'm one of the people who spoke to the media after Ontario passed the Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act. I spoke about my experience. I was a victim of domestic violence. I was trapped in a contract with my abuser because I left before the end of our contract.

Status of Women committee  That's a great question. Thank you. I love that question. It gets me so excited. This sounds sort of silly, but as a public educator, I could do a two-hour workshop, and especially men will write in the evaluation form that what they took away the most was me reminding them that people are as likely to set their house on fire for insurance purposes as they are to make false claims of sexual assault, but you wouldn't know that from watching the news.

Status of Women committee  We were the first chapter in Canada. The folks in Halifax, Peterborough, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Alberta are the other chapters. Some are more active than others, because we're all volunteer-based, but what is great about the model for Hollaback! is that people can work with the biggest problem in their community, the biggest need.

Status of Women committee  We couldn't develop our anonymous supporting mechanism without Ottawa police support, because there is a lot of stuff around privacy legislation, for example. Now there is an MOU between the police and OC Transpo security. They have to share information that they get with each other, and share intelligence on anything related to transit, which is a big win.

Status of Women committee  That's a great question that I will answer very quickly for you. First, having street harassment on your radar sounds hokey, but it's so important. It's on the continuum of sexual violence. In Ontario, there's a lot of conversation on sexual harassment and sexual violence. When you list forms of violence in terms of a call for proposals, for example, or as a focus, mentioning street harassment is really important.

Status of Women committee  —so maybe you're not as comfortable about intervening. You can delegate. You can tell the driver; you can very discreetly go up to the front and say that a woman looks really uncomfortable and you think something's happening. Or if you're on a construction site, we encourage you to find the guy with the white hat and say that his staff is harassing someone.

Status of Women committee  I'm going to speak in English. I also speak really fast in all languages, so I'm going to try to be really slow and articulate and keep my eye on the wonderful translators. Thank you so much for inviting us. We're the first Hollaback! chapter in Canada. We launched in 2010. It's pretty remarkable for us that street harassment is on the radar of the federal government.

Status of Women committee  People always think it's a reference to Gwen Stefani. It's not—no disrespect to Gwen Stefani. We were launched around 2005 in New York. If you remember, back then cellphone cameras were a brand new technology. It was very exciting. It was terrible and pixilated, but very exciting.