It's my pleasure.
To wrap up my last point, it is also community driven at the organizational level. This is a project of the Ottawa Police Service, the City of Ottawa, and OCTEVAW. We're combining the reach and legitimacy of those municipal bodies with our expertise in violence against women.
These are our recommendations to the committee. The strategy of preventing violence before it begins by engaging men and boys is largely unexplored. There is a body of evidence that has been built up in the last 10 years or so; however, it hasn't been fully exploited. The potential to reduce the number of interventions that come later is there. It's real. As this committee moves forward in exploring prevention strategies, and as it moves towards tabling its recommendations, it's vital that community organizations, like those that you've been consulting through this space, continue to be drawn in on an ongoing basis. This is an unexplored area and we need to do this together.
Second, at the local and community level, we know that it takes women's organizations, community organizations, municipal bodies, and male volunteers. All of these people need to come together to work at preventing violence against women. It is an everyone problem, not a women's issue. We need everyone solutions.
What does that look like at the federal level? Are there places in the federal framework where you bump up against large numbers of young men? Are there ways that this committee and Status of Women Canada can support other departments?
I'll end my comments there. Thank you, Madam Chair.