Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for that question. I'll just flag that the interpretation is very quiet and difficult to hear on my side, but I think I caught the gist of the question around access and support for women with disabilities. Again, I think that a systems approach is really nec

Status of Women committee  I'm happy to chime in on this. There is a range of programs that are available, happening in schools and in community centres across the country, that focus on the empowerment of girls, particularly looking at them in their own cultural settings. We fund many of those programs.

Status of Women committee  I think understanding the root causes of coercive control is extremely important, and I think those root causes are very similar to the root causes of all the other kinds of gender-based violence and intimate partner violence that we see. I think that any sort of direction the f

Status of Women committee  We've been talking with our colleagues in the sector since the beginning of the pandemic. When you ask them, “What do women and gender-diverse people need right now?”, housing is right at the top of the list. Housing and access to an adequate income are really, really significant

Status of Women committee  Thanks. I would just add, Ms. Chabot, that you are correct. People have been talking about this for decades. We've been advocating for years for what we need to see. The sector knows what it needs and has told the government what it needs a lot of times in different formats. T

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I'm sorry. I was trying to find my way to my mute button to answer your question on populations and statistics. I can look for some statistics for you, but we do know that immigrant women may be more vulnerable to intimate partner violence, for a lot of the reasons

Status of Women committee  Thank you, and good afternoon. I'm Karen Campbell from the Canadian Women's Foundation, joining you today from London, Ontario, on the traditional territories of the Attawandaron, Anishinabe and Haudenosaunee peoples. The Canadian Women's Foundation is Canada's only national pu