Human Resources committee  Good afternoon, honourable members, staff and guests. Thank you for the opportunity to address the committee on Bill C-591. Today I'm speaking on behalf of the Sexual Assault Centre (Hamilton and Area) and the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres, also known as the OCRCC. O

Human Resources committee  I'm sorry, I didn't hear any of the translation. It wasn't in my headpiece, so I don't know what was said.

Human Resources committee  No, I didn't hear the English. I'm so sorry.

Human Resources committee  I have it on, I could hear other people.

Human Resources committee  I'm sorry, I didn't bring a copy of the research. I'm sure it's easy to find out, and I have noted in my notes where I got the study. I don't know what percentage were manslaughter, but I agree that I think it's an issue not having manslaughter included, since for many of the cas

Human Resources committee  It would be a few days, but I would get them to you, yes.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  No, from a victim's perspective, absolutely not. I think this feels like a really clear thing we want to support and see happen.

Human Resources committee  No.

Human Resources committee  Yes. There are so many impacts. When you think of these children, they've lost their mom and they're dealing with that and the financial implications if both parents were working. Now the dad's incarcerated, or the partner or some male figure in the home is now incarcerated. So

Human Resources committee  Prior to working at Sexual Assault Centre, I worked in women's shelters, so my experience for many years was primarily domestic violence. We would hear from colleagues across the province. I think it was not as well known, so you'd hear about that odd case or someone would say, “

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  Yes, sure. I'll start, and then maybe I'll turn it over to my colleague. I started working in this field about 26 years ago, so it's been a long time. Interestingly, though, when I first started working and I would tell people what I was doing, people shook their head. They'd n

Human Resources committee  I'm wearing two hats today. I'm the president of the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres. I represent 26 rape and sexual assault centres across Ontario. We work primarily in advocacy. Similar to what Heidi's saying, we try to encourage conversation, awareness, education, and

Human Resources committee  Well, that's a million-dollar question, but I'll try it without a lot of thought beforehand. I think we need to have adequate child care available for women. As I said, shelters are mostly full of children because the highest risk group are young women, and we know that the wome