I think you're absolutely right. Prevention really and truly means identifying and responding to risk before violence escalates. For example, I mentioned off the top our high-risk action table for femicide prevention. You're bringing multiple systems together to share information and intervene early before something happens. It also means investing in areas like housing and income and services that allow women to leave safely. It includes education, school boards and all of that.
I want to suggest that I don't think prevention and education are funded properly. That's one of the issues. I mean, in our organization here, we do have provincial core funding for our core services, but for anything else we want to do as it would relate to prevention and education, for example, we have to apply for money to do that. It's really important that it's funded.
