Thank you.
I will echo many of the comments that you've just heard. In terms of data, there was a time when Status of Women Canada was more involved in data, research, and reports. At one point I participated in writing a chapter for a report for Status of Women Canada on the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
I would encourage involvement in some of those issues where they are relevant, particularly in terms of surveys or qualitative data collection. The federal government, I know, does collect some of their own data, but it's important to either open up that data to researchers such as Jennifer and me in universities or to allow us to participate in collecting national data so we can have a baseline to understand where things are, if are we improving, and if new things are popping up.
Second, I would agree with the comments around Status of Women Canada's role in terms of defining the question and opening up the question, opening up the concept of what we consider harassment. It's not just about women; it is about men. There's a variety of different types of behaviours, as Jennifer has spoken to.
Also we need to deal head-on with the issue of what is referred to intersectionality: how citizenship status, racialized status, religion, and family status all come and intersect and create different forms of gender-based harassment that people are experiencing and how these connect, not just in the experience.
I think this would be my third point, in terms of the reporting of harassment. I know recently the Canadian Human Rights Commission has taken some steps to provide some guidelines on how to deal with intersectionality around gender-based issues. But it's important that some of the women we talked to in our Ontario study said, “Well, I'm a black woman so it's not really sexual harassment for me, but it's not really racial harassment. Maybe I shouldn't report it.” But I think it's for us to understand as researchers, as employers—