VICTIMS OF CRIME (ABROAD COMPONENT) / VICTIMES D'UN ACTE CRIMINEL (VOLET À L'ÉTRANGER)

Purpose

Provide financial assistance to an individual Canadian victim of a specified serious violent crime in a foreign jurisdiction for emergency situations of undue hardship where no other source of financial assistance is available (specified categories of crimes are homicide, sexual assault, aggravated assault or assault with serious personal violence, or threat of serious violence, including against a child) or to an individual support person to accompany, attend with or support a Canadian victimized in a foreign jurisdiction. A total of 51 individuals received financial assistance in this regard.