Status of Women committee  It probably comes back to emergency services. The police are most likely to be the intervenors, and they need to be educated. They need to have the support. They probably need to have women go with them—shelter workers or female officers—to some of these situations so that they

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  I'm not a specialist in women's health in rural areas, but certainly the abortion issue is critical for many women, and I guess public health units are critical. They're the people who, when I was telling the story about north Lanark and the congenital heart anomalies probably du

Status of Women committee  Absolutely.

Status of Women committee  I have a cute story to add to that. When I worked at the shelter, sometimes we sheltered Inuit women from the north. I had a friend who was a pilot at the Carp Airport, and he would deliver food to the north. When we did have Inuit women in the shelter, I would get in touch with

Status of Women committee  It's obvious.

Status of Women committee  As well as being negative, it has positives, because everybody knows everybody, so hopefully you can find the one person who will support you, help you, give you the transportation you might need, or at least listen to you and maybe share resources. What I would really like to s

Status of Women committee  It means total safety for them that they can connect with who can help them. What did I say about connectivity?

Status of Women committee  Okay.

Status of Women committee  In Almonte, the local library has computers for people and people to help with using the computer.

Status of Women committee  Again, I don't have any solution. That's the problem. I've often thought that it makes sense to remove the man from the household and allow the women and the children to stay in the home and to take him to a place where he learns a better way of living and how to cook and has cou

Status of Women committee  I would add to that. Too often abusive men are given access to the children. I did a talk one time to law students at Ottawa U, and a defence attorney was also making a presentation. When I suggested that abusive men not have access to their children, he lit into me. It was as if

Status of Women committee  It's education. That's it. We have to listen to people who are telling stories like I've just told.

Status of Women committee  Yes, I'm done.

Status of Women committee  Yes, I know.