I would like, first of all, to say that all the answers and the solutions are always at the community, the grassroots, level. We strongly believe that in doing all this work on violence against women a co-development approach is critical, so you have government, industry and communities sitting at a common table to co-develop and co-create what the solutions are to really get ahead of it and be proactive.
Then there are the recommendations. I will be very quick on what we would like to see in terms of some industry standards around corporate social responsibility. There should be mandatory training on violence against women and sexual exploitation. They should have to contribute to a fund that is managed by an indigenous-led organization to address the harms of the social impact. There should be mandatory child abuse and criminal record checks so that there's some management of violent offenders coming into neighbourhoods. And there should be a monitoring body and hefty fines for non-compliance. We should look at strategies that have worked across the country.
I'm only aware of one initiative in Quebec that had some promising results.
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