Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the four anonymous reviewers and J. Douglas Willms, Bill Avison,
Patricia Erickson, and Bill Magee for their feedback and input on this research. We are grateful to the staff of Human Resources Development Canada and to the regional staff of Statistics Canada
in the Montreal and Toronto offices who facilitated this research. Part of this work was funded by
the Fond pour la formation de chercheurs et l'aide à la recherche du Québec, the National Consortium for Violence Research of the U.S.A., the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Université de Montréal.