Thank you very much, Emmanuella, and thanks for all the work you're doing here. I know that we threw you into the deep end in some ways with the work you're doing, but you're excelling, and your contributions to this place matter a lot.
In terms of the focus on vulnerable groups, especially vulnerable women, the way that the intersectional gender lens is applied to any consultation process or any policy or regulation that we put forward is, very roughly, by asking how it affects women and men differently. What about people of different genders? What does it mean for persons living in rural and remote Canada rather than in urban centres? What does it mean for seniors as compared with young people? What does it mean for indigenous persons vis-Ã -vis migrants to this place? What does it mean for persons with disabilities and exceptionalities, for francophones or LGBTQ2 communities? That's the frame in which the analysis is taken into consideration.
Within the gender-based violence strategy, we heard from stakeholders that it was critical to focus on those populations that are particularly vulnerable to violence, because we know that there's also a confounding factor that happens. If you're a woman with a disability in rural Canada identifying as LGBTQ2 and as a francophone, you have a whole other set of barriers but also vulnerabilities that can make you susceptible to violence.
The way we're intervening is first by making sure that we hear those voices. Many thanks to my gender-based violence advisory council, who help ensure that we stay current, up to date, and aware of these voices and of that intersectional lens that we need to be applying to the work we do.
More specifically, on the ground we rely on expertise from organizations that we fund to do this work for us. We will be focusing on those vulnerable groups with the funding that will be rolled out as part of the gender-based violence strategy. We also need to make sure that we have a better understanding of what is actually happening. Whether it's female genital mutilation and cutting, or challenges that persons with disabilities have around gender-based violence, or trans women and those living in urban centres versus rural centres, data and statistics are going to provide us with a better understanding of the scope of challenges.
Also, the knowledge centre is going to make sure that an intervention in Antigonish, for example, that is proving to be successful for vulnerable communities can be shared with those in a community in the Yukon, for example, so that we're not funding the same projects over and over again but the best practices are being shared and we get to the outcomes we need to get to faster and more effectively.