There's simply no question about it. Again, think about all these obstacles in her way as she leaves the relationship. Where there are additional obstacles, where she has accessibility challenges, where she is trying to find a transition home that might take her—one that's accessible, for example—or where she is deaf or hard of hearing, accessing all of these services takes quite a bit of additional time. For example, in legal aid she only gets 25 or 35 hours. In B.C. and some other legal aid regimes they are limited on hours. That doesn't change if you need a translator for a different language or if you need a translator for sign language, but that means you actually get half the time, because everything is being said twice.
Some of these sound like small details, but they have a pretty profound impact on women's lives. We are often in the position that so many of our issues are tied back to enabling women to have the choice to leave violent relationships. There are all kinds of legal regimes and policies and practices of government that get in the way of a woman's ability to leave. That's where we think the federal government has a real role—both in creating those provisions where they have jurisdiction and in being a leader for provinces, helping with the path.