Status of Women committee  I think the ones in the rural areas lacked information, because the information sources are very limited, especially in more remote communities. If you speak to someone in or living close to an urban area, you will find that their knowledge of what's out there will be much greate

Status of Women committee  Okay. I have almost finished. Community and economic development requires long-term strategies to increase economic, human, and cultural capital. Therefore, governments must increase investment and access to training and development programs and services in both traditional and

Status of Women committee  Merci, bonjour, kwe. Hello, good afternoon, nidijinikàz Claudette Dumont-Smith. I'm Algonquin from the Kitigan Zibi community, located just 90 miles across the river, directly north. So you are in Algonquin territory. I guess I don't have to acknowledge my people for being on my

Status of Women committee  Yes, as we mentioned, and as research shows, there is a loss of culture and a loss of culturally appropriate services in the communities. Poverty is an issue. Education is an issue. All these things have to be addressed. I've been involved for some 30 years in the field, and it

Status of Women committee  Well, I have no doubt that the campaign worked, but did it work in the aboriginal community? That's my question.

Status of Women committee  I don't know that. Maybe it was very effective in a non-aboriginal.... Did it work? We don't know that.

Status of Women committee  Well, when I first did that paper on abuse of aboriginal elders in 2002, that never came about. We only discovered that through our Grandmother Spirit project. It was the elders who were part of that advisory group who told us this was happening in their communities.

Status of Women committee  Yes, that's very recent data, and that's from the elders themselves.

Status of Women committee  Well, I don't think I was saying.... I'm saying that we have to raise the awareness of aboriginal elder abuse in communities. We need money to do that. We need money to have campaigns—

Status of Women committee  Well, the funding for this project has ended, and I'm hoping.... Our health staff are always looking for new project funding so we can address these issues, so yes—

Status of Women committee  Yes--or take her things. The problem of alcohol and drugs--especially drugs--in the communities is no secret. It's rampant. It's not the street drugs now; it's the prescription drugs. I was at a meeting last week in Quebec and it's a problem everywhere. It's mostly the young fo

Status of Women committee  No, it was for the Native Women's Association of Canada.

Status of Women committee  Yes, I think we got good, valid information from the elders themselves.

Status of Women committee  Yes, we applied for that. We wrote the proposal in 2007. It lasted 22 months. I think it ended last March.

Status of Women committee  It was about $250,000. It was supposed to be a 24-month project.