Thank you very much to all of our witnesses for coming today and starting us off on this very important study.
I have a number of questions and obviously not much time, so I ask you to keep your answers succinct.
First, we're looking here at comprehensive ways of preventing and ending violence against women. Increasingly, more and more voices in the violence against women community have been calling for a national action plan to end violence against women.
Madam Savoie, is Status of Women responding to that call? Is there any work being done in your department when it comes to looking at the possibility of creating a national action plan? What do national action plans in other parts of the world of like-minded countries look like? Is there any work happening on this front currently in your department?