It's hugely important, and I'm glad to have an opportunity to talk about the violence as well as jobs.
The national action plan is a requirement that the UN set for all member states. We're supposed to have a national action plan to address, respond to and eliminate violence against women by 2015. We're a little behind the times in advancing on this, but we have taken many important steps toward it, including the gender-based violence strategy by the federal government as well as the funding that was rolled out in response to the COVID crisis, which is welcome and necessary.
A national action plan would be a multijurisdictional vision with targeted and specific timelines and actions to help prevent and address violence against women. It's really about nailing down the specific things that we have to do.
On the labour side of things, we have a very clear road map in the new ILO convention C190, which is the convention to eliminate violence and harassment in the world of work. It specifically requires actions to address gender-based violence at work as well as domestic violence, which we've been working very hard on in the Canadian Labour Congress for the last few years.
In most jurisdictions in Canada workers have access to paid domestic violence leave, which is a tremendous victory, but it's only the beginning, and there's a lot we can do with unions, employers and governments together to operationalize the vision put out in the convention. That's what I would like to be working on with all levels of government as we create this vision of the national action plan.