Canadian Heritage committee  The broadcast standards, as I understand them, and the Criminal Code cover the material. That's my opinion, and although WAVAW has not come out with a position on this, I think those do it. But then the other part of this is that the bill, from our perspective, is fundamentally

Canadian Heritage committee  I would also like to add that on the research with children, and with the statistics that I presented about over a million children witnessing violence in their own homes--and perhaps you have some evidence of this--I don't believe they've ever asked whether or not these children

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, we'd like to have money to be able to do advocacy. Advocacy is forbidden. It's dangerous for the survival of organizations. We can't do that. And it's impossible to do social change without advocating for change. So that's a conundrum. Our organization has been ar

Canadian Heritage committee  Research is very important. It's an important factor that allowed us to gather all of these statistics that have brought us to the substantive knowledge that we have up to this point. Of course, the front-line workers, the activists, and the women who are working with women and c

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. Women in Canada continue to make less money than men. If women were indeed equal, we would not be dealing with real-life or TV violence and we'd certainly not be here discussing this bill. It's of no use to control images of violence on television without eliminating ineq

Canadian Heritage committee  It's done. Thank you very much from all of us at WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre and from the women we work for.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, and good afternoon. My name is Irene Tsepnopoulos-Elhaimer from the WAVAW—that's Women Against Violence Against Women—Rape Crisis Centre. I would like to thank you all for the opportunity to provide input to your deliberations and tell you how thrilled we are to be inv