Thank you for the question.
As I said earlier, we are a research centre, so our contribution is made in that way, not in the form of direct services to the public.
However, I think that the productive alliance and the collaboration between research and practitioners really are a winning formula for bringing about important social change.
In Quebec, we have the coordinated action component of the Programme de recherche sur la violence conjugale, funded jointly by the FRQSC, the Fonds de recherche du Québec pour la société et la culture, and the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux. It is connected with the Government Action Plan on Domestic Violence.
I will explain how that could work at the federal level, in concrete terms. The priority actions that would be set out in the federal government's action plan could lead to a call for projects. So projects would then be funded based on targeted actions. For example, projects could be organized around one, two or three focuses. That would require that the projects be carried out in partnership with practitioners and academics. You could certainly count on the collaboration of our organization, as a member of the Alliance of Canadian Research Centres on Gender-Based Violence, to circulate the call for projects widely among the academic communities and practitioners working on violence, so that appropriate projects would align with the government's priorities.
This may be a model that the federal government could use if it wants to play a role in violence research.