evidence: " … women and girls are disproportionately killed by someone they know, namely an intimate partner or a family member … In comparison, men are most often killed by someone with whom they share a more distant relationship (e.g., an acquaintance, friend, stranger)" (Sutton, Statistics Canada, 2023). The proportion of women killed by a spouse or intimate partner is over eight times greater than the proportion of men (Statistics Canada, 2020). [...] More than six in 10 Indigenous women have been physically or sexually assaulted at some point since the age of 15, compared with more than four in 10 non-Indigenous women (Statistics Canada, 2021).