I want to add that for all of this issue, it's not only a question of extra housing, not only a question of better laws, not only a question of more awareness. If this situation of conjugal violence is left unchecked, it provokes what we call ripple effects. We can all remember the Nova Scotia situation, in which the underlying reasons for the shootout were that there was conjugal violence. What I would like to see is a more holistic, global perspective on conjugal violence that gives it the status that is required.
If you look at the shelter system, it's younger and younger women who are being admitted. The biggest age group all over Canada is young women from their twenties to their forties. Why is this the case? It means that young men are perpetrating the violence, so it boils down not only to a question of more space and more rooms, but of more money being put into the issue of conjugal violence as a whole.