Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for that question, Karen. There are a couple of things we think about when we do our work, given that we know we can't be everywhere in the country. We also host large-scale conferences of about 200 people, called “What Makes a Man”. We host conferences in pa

Status of Women committee  Sure. I'll just wrap up by saying that we know there is also a hunger for new resources and tools and ways to connect in diverse communities. We've been working with the Canadian Council of Muslim Women to create a tool kit on engaging men in the Muslim community, as well as with

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that question. Part of it is capacity and reach and scope. We know some of the pieces that are working in each of these organizations that we had as part of our community of practice. The tool kit that's just been launched is quite extensive. It has an incredible e

Status of Women committee  There are always challenges within all community interventions to seeing cause and effect and the impact. What we do really effectively, I think, is evaluate our programs for the experience of participants prior to and following. I can speak to one particular initiative that we

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the question. You're right that you're probably not going to be asked to go back to the kitchen very often, but you certainly are ripe for criticism within the public sphere, as all officials are. I would suggest that you speak out when you see these inci

Status of Women committee  That is some of the work my colleagues are doing on the ground. They would tell me a different thing than they would tell a male colleague. They would probably say that they see it in magazines, they see it in videos, they see it in pop culture references, and those are some of

Status of Women committee  I can start. Thank you for those reflections on Jack's leadership. We use those as a calling card all the time in thinking about where we want to take the work. As I mentioned, we work from a strengths-based approach. We don't think it's particularly useful to shame men, to mak

Status of Women committee  We've certainly seen the hyper-exposure of pornography and the objectification of women's bodies as being a real challenge for this question. We do a lot of work in high schools, as well as at universities, as we try to help groups of students figure out and make sense of gender

Status of Women committee  If you don't mind my interjecting, we are currently doing some work with the Ontario government as part of the action plan. We've been funded for a multi-year, three-year initiative, as part of a joint consortium of community groups, including the Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre, to do

Status of Women committee  It predated my time at White Ribbon, but the report is publicly available. I can say that one of the things we learned out of the insights from that survey was that men are willing to be allies and to step up. They know that this is a problem and are ready to acknowledge that the

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. Hi, everyone. This is the first time I've used this kind of technology. I'm hoping it's all working well on your end. I want to start by thanking the committee for exploring this question and taking a look at the challenge of violence against young women. I