Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and honourable committee members, for your invitation to appear before the Standing Committee on the Status of Women and participate in this study on violence against young women and girls. Public Safety Canada is acutely aware that violence against women

Status of Women committee  No, that's quite all right. There's more time for you.

Status of Women committee  I'll take a first stab at the question. To begin, I think it's an area that does need more study and more discussion with respect to what the issues are, how we address those issues, and how we move them forward. When we look at our crime prevention programs, we look at differen

Status of Women committee  I would just say that with any new strategy, particularly in this field, which is evolving and changing, I think the strategy has to evolve and change as we learn more about what's happening, as we're exposed more to technology changes, and as children become more exposed to what

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. I'm actually going to turn to my colleague Shirley here, who has some information she'd like to share with respect to that.

Status of Women committee  I don't have any level of expertise on that particular issue. There are information-sharing issues that come into play in countries outside Canada. I don't know about the policing part.

Status of Women committee  Perhaps I could add to that. The other thing we look at, too, is working across departments. We would work with Immigration Canada, as an example, in terms of some of the programs it has at the front-line level for working with new immigrant women coming to Canada. There's also a

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the question. I'll just give a bit of an overview in terms of the crime prevention program. We have about 67 programs operating across the country today. Of those, there are two specifically targeted toward young children, girls. There are about 27 target

Status of Women committee  There are very good cyber-programs online that focus specifically on youth in terms of behaviour—Shirley used some examples—where they work with youth to identify what behaviours are cyber-bullying, identifying if your child is involved and how to take those signals and determine

Status of Women committee  What we look at is anything from Twitter accounts to Snapchat—the kinds of things kids are using on social media—to identify when their behaviour is crossing a line, to make them aware that saying something, the kind of language they use, the kind of behaviour they use, for examp

Status of Women committee  Typically, from a purely process perspective, we do what we call a “call out” for a program. I'll use the exiting prostitution program as an example since we did that just recently. We went out and did a call out. We posted that we had an interest in groups coming forward to give

Status of Women committee  Yes. I'll give you a real-life example of one. SNAP is for girls aged six to 11 actually. It's a Canada-developed model. Another is called Spirit. It's for girls aged 11 to 15. It's actually in Calgary, in junior high schools. It's really to assist them. They're young girls who

Status of Women committee  A lot of project submissions come in. We have a lot of them.

Status of Women committee  We could say yes to a lot of them.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. I have a couple of comments on your point. We do have a lot of conversations about at what levels we influence and how we actually bring these in at the grassroots level and at a very young age. A number of schools are now introducing civility with