Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. There are a couple of ways. One, we know that without comprehensive sex education, which most youth do not have and most adults have not had, we are not talking about the important issues around our sexual rights. We're just talking about bodies, anatomy and those kinds of things, which are not what we need as tools to go into relationships or tools to go into the world and actually interact with people who are attempting to get us to do things that we may or may not want to do, or even to initiate sex that we do want.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Chair and honourable members. I'm Dr. Charlene Senn, professor of psychology at the University of Windsor and a tier 1 Canada research chair in sexual violence. I'm a social psychologist whose research focuses on prevention of sexual violence on university campuses and for younger high school-age girls.