Well, I've already made my views known to the whips of each party who are dealing with this special committee. My view is that this is a good opportunity for all of the parties and for women's organizations that are working on this issue to put forward a substantive exercise and a substantive process, and I support that wholeheartedly.
I look forward to the special committee. I will work with my colleagues as much as I can. I know this is led by Justice Canada. This is about the investigation in particular, the investigative techniques or allegations about challenges in the judicial system that aboriginal women and girls have faced and that communities have faced. But we will be there to support the committee in any way that we can.
I don't know who is going to be sitting on the committee, but I hope all of you from the different parties make a point that it is especially important to have the expertise from this committee. You already did a study on this issue not that long ago, on the issue of violence against aboriginal women and girls. I hope that all that information is available to the special parliamentary committee and that some of the members of this committee are asked to sit on that committee or participate in whatever the undertakings are of that committee. It's very important.
There has been a lot of work done. There's been $25 million allocated to the missing and murdered aboriginal women strategy. There's been a new centre created by the RCMP for missing persons, and a new national database that's accessible for all levels of police, whether municipal, provincial or federal police organizations. There's even a public tips website. If you know of someone who's missing, you can put a piece of jewellery on it so that people could maybe identify it.
There are so many things happening across the country to deal with this issue. There's the inquiry in British Columbia led by Mr. Oppal. We have forwarded that information on to the United Nations that's looking at this issue. There's a lot of collaboration between the provinces and the federal government. There's so much work that has gone on and a lot of goodwill, but there's still an opportunity—