Status of Women committee  I'm so sorry. I can't address your question. I'm the stand-in for Terri Szabo, who's the president of the Yukon Aboriginal Women's Council. I don't know the answers to your questions.

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, I don't have the statistics. I can't really see what else is going on. I can only see from my little community, which is Watson Lake in the Yukon Territory, and there are no resources. It's a mess. Everything that comes is short term. Everything that comes is not adequate.

Status of Women committee  If you could fix all the mental health problems first, that would be fine. Then you need to have educational opportunities, because people have to take the steps to empower themselves to be self-actualized. The root problems have to be solved; all the addictions have to be solved; all the resources need to be applied so that there are treatments for the addictions.

Status of Women committee  There has always been funding, but's it's always short-term funding. Nothing's perpetual and the problems are perpetual. The agencies that get the funding are always in a state of anxiety as to whether or not they're going to get the funding again. All of that has to be changed.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  In my opinion, they are starting at the wrong place. They are offering all sorts of technical skills development, but they haven't addressed the emotional trauma that still permeates everywhere from colonization. If you're coming from a place of low power, you can have all the applications of credentials that you want, but you're still not whole from the inside out and that is what needs to be addressed.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for inviting us to participate. I'm here on behalf of Terri Szabo. I am a clinical social worker and a mental health service provider. I've been working with first nations people in rural communities for more than 43 years. I am trying to put all this together.