Status of Women committee  I didn't hear some of it. Could you ask the question in English as well?

Status of Women committee  Okay, thank you for your question. I think the government can work together with schools and organizations to start promoting healthy relationships. It's the new way of looking at cyber-bullying. Instead of addressing ways to prevent cyber-bullying or ways to punish people who are aggressors, it focuses on healthy relationships early on, especially in schools.

Status of Women committee  From as early as they can understand. It should start from the very beginning. Cyber-bullying is one form of trauma, but if we go into talking about sexual violence and all of those things, they all tie into each other one way or another. It's the culture that needs to be shifted, and at an age at which the boys and girls can understand.

Status of Women committee  Yes, teaching consent and cyber-bullying, and how it's not right to.... It's a form of violence against women too. It's done online, but it's the same thing. It's calling women the “c” word, or any of those words. Yes, starting from that early age is how you shift the culture.

Status of Women committee  For me, as a youth, having youth engagement is very critical. Also, because I'm a teacher, I think the way we engage youth right now is almost symbolic. We'll just say, “We'll add a youth to be at the table to talk about youth issues”, and that's it. It's almost tokenism but for young people, whereas if we really want to engage youth, we need to start from the beginning.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  My name is Melinda Julie Phuong. I am representing the riding of Markham—Thornhill. I am honoured to be here today to talk about how cyber-bullying in schools affects girls' decisions to take on leadership roles in the future. As a delegate and educator, I intend to shed light on this issue so that misogynistic and sexist comments online will become non-existent, as will the hesitation of girls and young women with regard to leadership moving forward.