Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. I would very much support the comments Dr. Lanius made. Education is key to prevention. It is one of the big pieces that we have to move forward on in terms of being able to educate, and not just the community. Many people lack awareness of what pos

Public Safety committee  Thank you. I would say that, first of all, one of the things that became very clear to us is that we have to have an integrated approach. The more we work in silos, the less effective we will be, so we should be working with DND, with veterans, with the Health portfolio, with ou

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for inviting us to discuss our ministerial round table on post-traumatic stress disorder. My name is Lori MacDonald, and I am the assistant deputy minister of the Emergency Management and Programs Branch at Public Safety Canada.

Status of Women committee  Certainly from a crime prevention perspective when we look at the impacts of youth, at the kinds of crime prevention programs we're putting in place, it's not a singular issue. Risk factors and protective factors can include, as an example, kids who have hyperactivity issues or d

Status of Women committee  Many school districts have community policing available, not all. It depends on the size of the community. Bigger urban centres tend to have the liaison available right in the school system. In rural high schools there's a much bigger population. They have more conflict, more iss

Status of Women committee  I think it's a very good point you make, and I'll give a concrete example. I just had the opportunity about six weeks ago to visit La Loche. I went with our provincial counterparts, including from education. Everyone sat at the table together to talk, in that there is an educat

Status of Women committee  Maybe I'll just add to that question in terms of the point about the young girls and whether it's necessarily to prevent them becoming involved in criminal activity. I think it's important to understand that it's a large catchment. It's an at-risk group that could become involved

Status of Women committee  Absolutely.

Status of Women committee  They could be victimizing someone else, or they could be the victim as well. In a number of these programs, not only that one, but in even the high school programs as well they will say, “I have low self-esteem. I'm cutting. I'm doing something. I'm withdrawing”, and then they're

Status of Women committee  There are crime prevention programs for that age group. Let me see if I can find an example here. They don't really focus on the way you framed it, in terms of being a victim of that, although there are victim programs that are run by other agencies and departments and so on, the

Status of Women committee  There are, though, crime prevention programs, whether that's a gang program or a youth program, that deal with issues that are aimed at violence against women. It would depend on the target group you're actually looking at. It could obviously impact people going to colleges and u

Status of Women committee  Absolutely both, yes.

Status of Women committee  Yes. That's in its second year. The leadership and resiliency program is based on giving the kids leadership skills so that they actually don't become involved in their peer network such that, for instance, there's a lot of conflict at home, so I think I'll go outside behind the

Status of Women committee  We can't be naive and we can't be complacent. We know that sexual assault and assault are under-reported. We know that when young women go off to school they don't always have a strong friend structure in place. There is a lot of anxiety about being away from home for the first t

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, but I don't have any statistics on this subject.