Michelle, thanks so much for the question, and it's great to see you, albeit virtually.
This is really important. “The eagle can't fly with one wing” is just that, and it gets to the heart of it. We have to call men and boys in and make sure that they are at the table and that we are engaging in conversation and listening and understanding.
I'm going to point again to my indigenous friend in Iqaluit, who said that this is where she's centring her work, because so many women have been abused. So many are fleeing intimate partner violence. She wants to get to the root of it, and that means peeling back the layers of men themselves who are perpetuating this violence but who have gone through violent situations themselves. They've gone through horrendous things, whether they are residential school survivors who themselves have families and perpetuate violence because they saw violence.... It's all of these things. Violence begets violence, so it's about calling the men and boys in. It's listening. It's not just speaking to them and talking at them. It's listening to them.
Since 2015, WAGE has provided $16 million to over 40 organizations that do just that. They engage men. They engage boys, and they look at gender-based violence protection.