Again, as I addressed in my opening earlier, it's really important to address the fact that, today, we heard heartbreaking news. This is completely unacceptable. Gender-based violence has no place in our country. I'm thinking about the women, the families and the loved ones who are deeply impacted, and my heart goes out to all of them.
Our response, in terms of the federal government, is one that is both urgent and practical. If we're referring to Quebec specifically, our agreement with Quebec has provided $97.3 million to support organizations on the ground. They're helping survivors. They're strengthening frontline services and working to make sure we're doing everything we can to prevent violence before it happens. Through our national action plan to end gender-based violence, we're making sure that provinces and territories are allocating a minimum of 25% of all funding toward prevention.
As this committee knows—you've had the minister here already to speak about Bill C-16—and as we've heard from frontline organizations, it is critically important to make sure we're making femicide a first-degree offence.
This piece around criminalizing control is vitally important, because one of the precursors to violence in this country is coercive control, and coercive control can come in many forms. By putting forward Bill C-16, what women's organizations have asked for is to make sure our law enforcement has the tools and mechanisms to act on and to make sure we are providing interventions for coercive control when we can intervene in any respect. We are working through it with financial institutions on the financial side as well. When we act, we are able to stop these acts of violence and prevent gender-based violence in our country. I think this piece around Bill C-16 is incredibly important. Again, above and beyond that, it's really making sure that we're strengthening our criminal system.
The member—