Thank you.
We need to invest in a national campaign to build awareness and education on preventing violence against women, including forced marriage. This would include investing in education for service providers broadly defined, who include those working with immigrants and refugees in shelters and housing, within the health care field, in law enforcement, in immigration, and in community and other social work.
We need to invest in services for women, including specialized services for aboriginal women, refugee and immigrant women, women with disabilities, and older women, so that we can support them in breaking out of isolation and in their movement to economic independence.
We need a national housing strategy that would include providing affordable housing as well as emergency and transition housing for all women who need it.
Last, we need a national child care strategy that would free up women to enter the labour market.
I look forward to our conversation.