As Quebec's government announces plans to spend $200 million on preventing and responding to sexual assault, critics are not certain it will do any good.
Leaders of women's groups, such as Eliane Legault-Roy of La Cles, and Nathalie Khlat of Beacon of the Free, say the proposals mentioned by the government on Friday are vague.
Khlat said the announcement is missing "a schedule of actions, a clear plan of what's going to be next. What's going to happen next?".
Still, Legault-Roy is glad groups like hers, which helps women escape prostitution, are getting government support.
"We were exhausted of waiting so basically we're really happy just to have it now," she said.
Politicians say the plan is too little, too late.
Manon Massé of Quebec Solidaire said the amount devoted by the government, in the same week it announced a $2.2 billion surplus in its annual budget, is very small.
"It's very insulting. We want to stop what is happening to women and $5 million per year, it's not the way to do it," said Massé.
Ariane L'Italien, who went public about being sexually assaulted at Harvard University, applauded the strategy, but thinks it is lacking in certain aspects.
"One thing not in the report, in the strategy, that I would like to see is the mention of rape culture," said L'Italien.
Jean-Francois Lisée said it took the Liberals a long time to implement a plan after making the first announcement in 2014.
"They lost two-and-a-half years. That's two-and-a-half years when pimps and sexual violence had a free pass because of that," said Lisée.
But in the end, even the critics acknowledged that victims of sexual violence will be getting the money and attention they need.
