Thank you, Madam Chair.
Minister, I'm going to build on what my colleague MP Shin had asked you. I'm going to give you some statistics.
One in three women and girls in Canada will face some sort of gender-based violence in their lifetime. That is 6,373,323 women and girls.
At your last appearance here at the committee, when you appeared for main estimates, you refused to answer my question about when we would see the national action plan to address gender-based violence. Our allies such as Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Norway and the United Kingdom have all developed national action plans, and in some cases, are already working on versions two and three.
You've been giving a lot of fluffy answers, but fluffy answers don't solve the problems. Actions do, and we do not have a national action plan from you. You're sitting here and telling us that you're protecting women, that you're defending women, that you're standing up for women, yet there's no action plan.
Can you tell me when that action plan is coming and how, by not having that, you're protecting and standing up for women?