Status of Women committee  My answer is the same. We don't have the resources to address the increase in violence against indigenous women and girls, particularly in the northwest, where the pipeline is going through. There have been no additional resources that I'm aware of that have been sent to indigenous women and girls.

Status of Women committee  The biggest issue in northwestern B.C., where there's a pipeline going in, is in anticipation of all the housing needs. All the spare housing got taken up and all the worst housing, which is the housing that indigenous single-parent families are in, with mouldy, cold basements, even those went into impossible rental levels for indigenous families.

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely.

Status of Women committee  Then again, I'm really troubled by this concept of finding a balance between violence, essentially, and resource development. I really think that we need to have zero tolerance for violence against indigenous women and demand that of the resource sector. I think that's an important change that we need to make in our sector, but again, it's housing, it's resources, it's access to food security.

Status of Women committee  In the same way that Debbra Redsky has addressed this as well, we need to be working with local first nations and indigenous urban communities when the resource sector is coming into town to start developing those safety plans. I would say the same things. We need really in-depth criminal records, and setting some no-tolerance rules for violence that are within an employee's contract so there doesn't have to be a proof of violence at the end of the day through the criminal justice system, because indigenous women don't go through the justice system for the most part.

Status of Women committee  No, I don't.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Hi, everybody. I'm Leslie Varley, the executive director at BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres. I belong to the Giskaast clan of Nisga'a nation and reside at Musqueam territory in Vancouver. I'm calling in today from beautiful Lekwungen territory in Victoria. I'm just going to jump right in to some recommendations.