Justice committee  Madam Chair and members of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to present our most recent statistics on senior abuse in Canada. Much of the information I'll be focusing on this afternoon is available in the publication “F

Justice committee  Thank you, Chair. That's a wonderful question. In 2008, Statistics Canada did a very comprehensive feasibility study to look at senior abuse and elder abuse to figure out how to fill a critical data gap. In having many discussions across the country with different experts, we f

Justice committee  Through the budget there were funds provided to Statistics Canada to explore and work on creating more systems to release disaggregated data. On our police data, we'll start collecting ethnicity data sometime in the near future. We are going through the feasibility of how to capt

Justice committee  That's a great question, Madam Chair. I would suggest that a question for the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police could really focus on enforcement. When we collect police-reported data, it's all lined up with the Criminal Code. We have full coverage with all police servic

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Chair, for the question. There are key linkages between risk of being a victim of intimate partner violence and experiencing maltreatment before the age of 15. That could include harsh parenting or witnessing violence within the home. From a child's perspective, if th

Status of Women committee  We do.

Status of Women committee  Certainly.

Status of Women committee  We have no data on that specific question. We do have something I will send your way. With the survey of safety in public and private spaces, we asked a series of questions about attitudes towards gender-based violence. It was very generic. We broke it down by male and female a

Status of Women committee  We can. For the first report, we didn't do a deep dive. Those are great questions. We can definitely produce it for you.

Status of Women committee  We do. In the packet, we provided one table. I also have another table in the office that I can send that compares 2019 to 2020. We know that with intimate partner violence for women, the rates are higher in rural Canada than in urban areas. When we think about rural, we need t

Status of Women committee  I would defer to the experts on the service providers, who know policy and programs.

Status of Women committee  Chairwoman, that's a great question. I think Statistics Canada has done a great job, with funding from our partners, in monitoring intimate partner violence over the years. Where we understand the gaps to be is for new immigrants who don't speak English or French. They would not

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. In the survey of safety in public and private spaces, we did ask respondents whether they had experienced any emotional abuse and if some of it was controlling: “Did your partner blame you for the violence? Did you feel trapped?” Some of these key ind

Status of Women committee  We did more than that. We had physical violence and several behaviours just for physical, several behaviours for sexual and then several behaviours for emotional and psychological abuse. It did not have to include physical violence.

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, that's a great question. Seventeen per cent of male respondents said that in their lifetime they had experienced some form of intimate partner violence, and that was from the age of 15. You are correct. Many victims of intimate partner violence do not report to the