Citizenship and Immigration committee  What we need is an opportunity for these women to find a way to safety without putting their family members at risk.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We absolutely need more resources. We see the extent of the problem. We see many barriers to accessing help. Let me refer to another respected community group, which I know you've heard from—the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario, which has done a very specific survey of women a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Members of the committee, my name is Tamar Witelson, and this is Silmi Abdullah. We are lawyers from METRAC, a non-profit organization that has worked for 30 years to prevent violence against women. Thank you for this opportunity to explain METRAC's concern that women