Thank you.
The consequences are very real. What we see is that women can't escape fast enough. They don't have the resources and the means because they have no access to their finances. They live under threat, trying to figure out how to navigate the system.
In women's shelters and transitional housing across the country, there are just not enough beds. What we see in Ontario alone is that women have no money to be able to afford to stay in hotels, and those are not the safest places for them to go. The shelter system itself is over capacity. We also have no.... Often as part of the financial control, there's an emotional control of separation from family. Sometimes women are coming from poor situations into the abuse. Sometimes they are dislocated from their families. They have no resources to find an escape.