Status of Women committee  In terms of public service announcements, one of the best campaigns I have ever seen is the campaign by President Obama and Vice-President Biden. They have a website with these snappy little messages. They have famous athletes and movie stars all talking about sexual assault on campus.

Status of Women committee  I would add that when we were developing our policy and were consulting with students, it was clear to us that the students did not want to replicate a criminal justice process on the university campus. We worked hard to make sure that the criminal option was always open to students, and we have a lot of students who want to go forward to the police and initiate that conversation.

Status of Women committee  We don't know yet, because our policy is brand new. It was only passed this past summer and we're just rolling it out now. The statistics are that, of course, sexual assault reporting in a criminal context is extremely low, devastatingly low, and for good reason. We certainly hope that students will come forward more readily in the university context.

Status of Women committee  As far as I know, we're the only university in Canada that mandates that an external investigator be required. We felt it was important, not so much because of accountability for the university, but mainly because we are taking away due process protections of face-to-face meetings and the ability to question witnesses and those sorts of things.

Status of Women committee  In Ontario, the universities have until the end of this year to come up with their stand-alone policies, and all of them have to have a data collection component to them. There is a provincial committee that is trying to work out best practices on that data collection. It's very controversial.

Status of Women committee  That's right.

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me to speak with you today. I was co-chair of the committee that drafted the new sexual violence policy at the University of Ottawa, which was approved by the board of governors in June 2016. I thought I'd use my time to describe the animating features of our policy and offer some thoughts on the balance that we tried to strike.