Certainly.
What we were hoping this would get to is a theme that was recurring in our interviews in the north. Service providers as well as indigenous women and girls themselves would raise the spectre of the residential school system in Canada and the intergenerational effects that has had. There is an association with homelessness, with suicide, with alcohol use, with depression and trauma. Some of those factors need to be considered in terms of ensuring that women and girls have the most options open to them in terms of pursuing a livelihood and generally for their safety.
In addition, in terms of the economic issues, as my colleague alluded to, in the north where so much of the controversy has surrounded the highway and hitchhiking, there has been quite an emphasis on making people aware of what the dangers are, but that has little effect if they can't do much to avoid them.
We think that a greater examination of, for example, why the dropout rate is higher for indigenous girls, is just part and parcel of discussing why there is this violence happening at such a disproportionate rate to indigenous women and girls.