Thank you, Chair; and thank you to both the YWCA Halifax and the Joy Smith Foundation for being here this afternoon.
Ms. Smith, I have a fairly extensive background in crime prevention and crime reduction. I want to get into crime reduction a bit later, but for prevention, especially, we're talking with youth, 12 to 14 years old, and I know how difficult it is to get into prevention. It takes 20 years, in some cases, for a cycle to go through to actually have an impact, and I think a lot of people just get to the point where they give up. It's so important for us to really look at focusing on the prevention; in other words, deterring the 12- to 14-year-old girls and boys now from getting into that particular predicament.
Reading through your review, it looks like you really are trying to do that. Can you help us in the panel here to understand what your plans would be and how you could start working on the prevention? That, to me, is the Holy Grail.