Thank you so much for the question and for the comments, and for setting out the context of rural Canada and rural Saskatchewan. I have so much love for Saskatchewan. It's a beautiful part of the world.
Yes, everything you said is correct. For women in rural communities, everything that we've talked about is compounded. As it happens, we've been receiving calls on our crisis line from rural Canada where women and young people are in the homes; and there are more guns as well because of hunting and the lifestyle around outdoor sports. The lethality factors are compounded and, of the deaths that I talked about in my remarks, many of the women were living in rural Canada.
Absolutely, rural Canada faces so many more challenges and we are so far away from addressing those needs. Everything you said about transportation and about having the support services available...but we can go a long way by using technology. We felt so strongly about the importance of having Internet access for women, for everybody, all over British Columbia and all over the provinces in Canada so that women in our rural communities can be able to reach out and connect remotely to services such as ours and others that may be in Saskatchewan, or may be somewhere else, in order to get support and make a plan. Lots can be done through the Internet and if we can build that kind of capacity, we'll go a long way to supporting women who are extremely and profoundly isolated in the way that you've just described.