Thank you, Chair. You can call me Lisa. That's no problem at all.
Thank you so much to all the witnesses for being here.
Lenore, we go back decades. I think you were always my go-to expert on gender-based violence. You've led Hamilton in this area for so long. I feel like I have too. I covered a lot of criminal court. I think about Holly Hamilton all the time. I watched her car get towed away with her body inside. I think about Tania Cowell. I think about all the things I saw and heard during those trials. It breaks my heart to this day.
Julie and Lenore, you've both spoken about bystander training. Even with all my experience and even with personal experience with this, I have seen incidents of domestic violence in the streets and I've hesitated to intervene or do anything because I'm afraid of making the situation worse for the woman.
What's your advice? How do we move forward as bystanders to support other women?