It's really hard to say. Because of our harsh climate, most of the homeless women are not absolutely homeless, sleeping on the streets--but some do, at minus 40. Most of the homelessness is relative, which means that women return to their abusive husbands, spouses, or partners. They use what's politely termed “survival sex” in order to survive. They will do almost anything to find a place to sleep when it's minus 40. They're living in abusive households.
In Nunavut, there are three and four families living in two-bedroom homes. As you can imagine, if you put that many people in a small place, the incidence of violence and assaults of all stripes increases.
It's hard to put a number on it, and it varies in each territory. We interviewed service providers for the study, and some said the number was 100, some said it was 500 for Yukon, which is high when you're looking at a population of close to 30,000 people. I interviewed 65 women, which is statistically very high. In the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, particularly Nunavut, the numbers go up.