Largely what is happening, and from most of what I've picked up—I think this is a really important point to make, and it's a piece of work DAWN is working on now—is that lots and lots of research gets done and the disability lens is either not applied or the disability research is not extracted and not understood to be significant.
Going back to that study in British Columbia, that data I shared with you wasn't found by the researchers to be significant. They weren't looking for it, so they didn't find it. That's the point I want to make to everybody. If you're not looking for the information, you won't find it. We are the most invisible population in this country, but one in five women in this country has a disability—one in five—and that's a low number. That's based on the fact that with stigma, we don't have people really coming forward. Lots and lots of brain-injured women who don't know they have a brain injury instead think that there's something wrong with them. They develop mental health problems. They develop addictions.
All of those things stem from the fact that they weren't supported from the outset or that it's not understood that when they experience violence, they are experiencing more than physical violence. Women are becoming disabled through violence in the country at alarming rates.