Justice committee  Ditto to everything that has been said. I want to just emphasize that coercion, domestic violence, is not an issue that happens to other races; it's a human race issue. When police show up at a particular door, police come in realizing that this is not “these people's” issue. The

Justice committee  Yes. Thank you. Some of it has already been said. I think when the police appear at a home and the perpetrator, or the man, is impeding the woman from speaking, perhaps wanting to be the interpreter or saying things like, “Well, she doesn't really understand English very well”,

Justice committee  Absolutely, there is a pattern. There is a pattern of control. That means that the abusive person has the same control in every aspect—the way you think, the way you speak, what you do, your social media. In fact, they're not just controlling the social media. They're also threat

Justice committee  Do you mean, specific to the pandemic?

Justice committee  The pandemic came only to shed the light on the existing issues and problems. Certainly for the women we work with in our outreach centre, as I said, many of whom are still living with abusive partners, now the pandemic has created even more challenges. We have women who are not

Justice committee  Good morning, Madam Chair. My name is Carla Neto, and I appear before this committee representing Women's Habitat of Etobicoke, a feminist organization serving victims and survivors of gender-based violence, and their children or dependants, since 1978. We operate two distinct