To the first part of your question, my answer is yes.
I'm one of the people who spoke to the media after Ontario passed the Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act. I spoke about my experience. I was a victim of domestic violence. I was trapped in a contract with my abuser because I left before the end of our contract. I can't even describe how the new act would have saved my life 13 years ago if I had been able to leave my house with a 28 days' notice. I think this practice could be easily applied across the country and would help survivors of violence a great deal.
To answer the second part of your question, I think women's organizations in Canada have been a sad sight in the past ten years. They have been competing with each other because they each had to find funding. They were not working together. Actually, people don't always want to share their ideas or problems because they are afraid of losing their funding. It's as if I said that I only have a small piece of the pie and that I don't want to share it with Maïra Martin, from Action ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes. We have to be realistic in this respect. The tendency to suspect that the other organizations are trying to take our funding still exists and is still preventing us from working together.
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