Good afternoon.
I think we will start even though we are still waiting for our friends from StatsCan who are caught in the security lineup, potentially being frisked. The good news is that they're with us until five o'clock, so we'll have plenty of opportunity to question them.
I want to welcome back our representatives from Status of Women, Linda Savoie and Justine Akman. We appreciate your being with us again.
Today we're going to be focusing on the topic we've decided to study, which has to do with violence against women and has quite a broad scope.
Linda, would you like to go first?