The resources that I have produced are being used internationally, and in universities to teach. As well, we are in the process of producing another one on how honour-based violence differs from domestic violence and intimate partner violence, and how the risk assessment.... We don't have appropriate risk assessment tools in Canada or internationally, for that matter. We are working on that, and hopefully it will be ready with the help of the Minister of the Status of Women, as well as Rona Ambrose.
I want to emphasize—and I want to say this again and again—that in the 35 years I've been in this business, Rona Ambrose was the first woman representative of a government who came and said “How can I help you?” That has helped bring this forward to the international community, who are now asking for these tools.
In preparation for the Senate committee as well as this committee, I have been speaking on ethnic television and radio stations and calling women—because I work with the South Asian community and speak three languages—and saying “What do you think?” and explaining to them.
Somebody reminded me on the radio that 30 years ago we started working on domestic violence, and when it was recognized, women got the power to stand up and say “This is the law. You can't hit.”