Status of Women committee  I don't know which one. Those are big conversations.

Status of Women committee  I think we have to look at all the biases all the way around. They start with misogyny, patriarchy and colonized thinking and how our system is set up to address this. Then we need to look at biases at all levels, from ageism to sexism and racism and all those things in between,

Status of Women committee  I think you also need to loop into your conversation the new sexy, AI, because that is the most concerning thing. After being at the United Nations in March and working through this with UN Women, I think that Ontario has a great strategy. There is education across the board for

Status of Women committee  It means that sometimes we have to say no—and I don't. Sometimes I put myself at risk.

Status of Women committee  It's travel, accessing girls, making sure their needs are met when they can't fill out applications or the funding has run out for something. I think the committee needs to take a look at how funding is allocated. If it's only through the law enforcement lens or through those vi

Status of Women committee  Yes, it's one of the things in my brief.

Status of Women committee  I apologize for swearing.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  We actually started these programs because we had no responses in our chair's community to address this in 2018. We had already worked in the trauma area, seeing over 5,000 children and youth through our programs. The hole in the bucket was getting bigger when it came to human tr

Status of Women committee  I have tons. You can look up Dr. Jacqui Linder as well, because she also supports this.

Status of Women committee  Yes, we have seen a marked impact. In the province of Ontario, we have probably the strongest strategy. It was dovetailed right after #ProjectONroute was created at the hands of a 16-year-old survivor. It was created to wake up our community about what was happening and start t

Status of Women committee  We know that there continue to be gaps everywhere in all of our responses, but I'm going to take us back to the fact that we do have a national strategy, yet we do not have a national action plan. The first pillar in our strategy was to strike a survivor table. Where is our survi

Status of Women committee  I think one of the most important things is to pose the questions to survivors or those who are currently and not just historically working with minors. I can tell you stories from today on my drive here. I can talk about yesterday and last week. I can talk about what's current

Status of Women committee  I encourage everybody on this panel to research and listen to survivors who are working in real time. Our research is people.

Status of Women committee  I don't believe they're steep enough, given that the majority of them are pleaded out before they even get to court. Also, in regard to a witness's statement, if anything is pleaded out, that witness has to go back to realign their statement and isn't allowed to talk about anyt