Thank you very much.
I really want to thank our witnesses today for the very enlightening and also some very powerful recommendations that you've provided us.
I'd like to delve a bit into what I'm, in my mind, starting to hear, which is really about impunity. It goes back to some of the things that you've said. Ms. Varley, you used a term that was really quite alarming: “accepted collateral damage”. Indigenous women and girls are accepted collateral damage.
Ms. Redsky, you described the stereotypes and this assumption that indigenous women will do anything for money. There was the cruising that Ms. Varley referred to. Ms. Greig, there's this notion—and it's interesting you used the word “apathy”—that there's a disempowerment and indigenous women are in a state of apathy. It is really hard, as legislators, to try to develop programming or funding models that can address those kinds of very deeply entrenched, historic, colonial and societal notions that, in many cases, are probably even unconscious. They're perpetuated and they're internalized, but they're also perpetuated when women are treated as objects and objectified.
There's a lot of money in the budget. In the last budget, there was something like $860 million for safety in indigenous communities. We've got money in this budget, with $500-and-some million to fight gender-based violence, yet what I'm hearing from you is that resources aren't there or when resources are there, they are not being co-managed and developed with the input of the women who are impacted.
Can you give us advice? What is it that we can do, particularly as a committee making recommendations, that will allow us as legislators and the government to provide the resources that could then be used to address this overwhelming impunity with which the transient men and others who you're talking about are getting away with these things?
I'd like each of you to answer, but I'll start with Ms. Redsky.