• 67% of all Canadians say they personally know at least one woman who has been sexually or physically assaulted.
   

• On average, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every 6 days in Canada.
   

• Over half of Canadian women have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16.
   

• On any given day in Canada, more than 3,000 women (along with their 2,500 children) are living in an emergency shelter to escape domestic violence.
   

• In just one year in Canada, 427,000 women over the age of 15 reported they had been sexually assaulted. Since only about 10% of all sexual assaults are reported to police, the actual number is much higher.
   

• The cost of violence against women in Canada for health care, criminal justice, social services and lost wages and productivity has been estimated at $4.8 billion per year.

*Sources Statistics Canada