We talk about data as a defence against femicide and against gender-based violence. Just to give one example of how we have significant data gaps in Canada, recently the United Nations statistical framework came out with 10 variables that were indicative of femicide. The homicide survey in Canada—our official recognition of it—could gather information on only four of those 10 variables. If you consider Canada as a relatively good environment for data, that's a big issue. The variables don't capture the nuances surrounding what are prevention aspects of gender-based violence and violence against women, so for things like what direction or protection orders are in place, we don't know what direction, who was it who had the protection order; or for prior violence, we don't know who perpetrated the violence against who, but just that there was prior violence. These are the nuances that are required for prevention, and we don't have it at the very basic level.
On November 25th, 2024. See this statement in context.