Well, I think your topic is a great one, and I'm sure it will complement the work we've done. The work we've done to date shows that physical safety goes hand in hand with economic security, so tackling both those things in parallel is very important, because women who are living in poverty are more apt to experience violence because they just don't have access to the same kinds of options.
We have a number of projects across the country dealing with economic security, and a lot of these are helping women, whether it's financial literacy programs or programs to help them learn to start a new business. Those have been very successful.
We just announced one recently with l'Union culturelle des Franco-Ontariennes , and they have thousands of members in rural Ontario. They thought it would be a success if they had one new business that they helped created. I think there were at 23 at that point, and they were overwhelmed, because women don't feel they need $1 million to start a business, as some men do. I'm just saying that women are happy to sort of scrape together what they have and they'll start a business right out of their own kitchen; they're more apt to do that than men. We know that two-thirds of new small businesses are started by women, and that's why, because it's just the nature of women.
We find that these projects have been very successful. Especially in rural and remote areas, where women don't have the same economic opportunities, if women can start a home business or start a business over the Internet, we want to help them with that. It's been a good success.