With the research investments we've made and the national surveys I've spoken of, what we learned is that people often have not intervened when they witnessed violence because they didn't recognize it as violence. Another reason people noted they didn't intervene is because they didn't think it was serious enough to report. The last, most frequent answer we saw in terms of why people didn't report or didn't intervene is because they didn't know how. What that tells us is that we need to do more in terms of education. We need to educate people on what gender-based violence, intimate partner violence, is and how to recognize it. We need to do more to teach people what resources are out there for help. We need to do more in terms of building people's self-confidence in intervening safely for everyone.
What's under way to do that? Under the federal gender-based violence strategy that I talked about, the Public Health Agency of Canada is investing in the prevention of teen dating violence in particular. In our collaboration with provincial and territorial governments across the country, we have heard of various campaigns that are going on in the context of COVID to educate people on the very things I've noted. Under the federal gender-based violence strategy, the Department for Women and Gender Equality also has things for awareness and education that we're currently working on.