Status of Women committee  —and you're asking big questions.

Status of Women committee  We're talking about, I would suggest, two very different worlds. Prior to living in settlements, people were nomadic and living in much smaller groups with much greater interdependence, and it has been said with greater equality between the sexes out of necessity. There were occu

Status of Women committee  I'll speak about Baker Lake as an example. The mine is outside the community, and I think it's about a two-hour trip by road from Baker Lake to the community. The workers don't even land in Iqaluit. They're flown directly into Mary River, Pond Inlet. They don't stay in Pond Inlet

Status of Women committee  They are all fly-in, fly-out communities. There are no roads, with the exception of the one now being built between Inuvik and Tuk. They are all fly-in communities. If we think about violence resulting in physical injury that requires health care, it's medevacs to Iqaluit or ofte

Status of Women committee  There are experts far more knowledgeable than I am, and who I would encourage you to speak to. There is a reluctance to break up the family. Within the last two generations, but fairly recently, there was a reluctance because of the loss of a provider, as in a hunter, so absolut

Status of Women committee  We must.

Status of Women committee  I can't offer a best practice, because we haven't had evaluations over time, but we can offer some promising practice from our expertise. We are very good at communicating. Information has to be communicated in accessible Inuktitut or understandable and relevant English. We have

Status of Women committee  Baker Lake is around 1,700.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. I'll try my best. It's really unfortunate that Rebecca Kudloo couldn't be here today. She works in education for the Government of Nunavut. She is primarily a voluntary president, and she would have great expertise. There are four regions of Inuit Nunangat

Status of Women committee  I believe the only funding we currently have with Status of Women Canada predates this government, and we are in the second year of a two-year project looking at mentorship.

Status of Women committee  I am not the hands-on project manager, so I apologize for not having the details at my fingertips. It's a logical progression of previous project work around supporting and encouraging Inuit women in business. When we were doing a project a number of years ago, there was great

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Again that's a very big question. We haven't been able to do any substantive work on child sexual abuse for a number of years. We don't have good evidence about the incidents. It's very difficult anywhere to get solid evidence, for lots of reasons. We know anecdotally about a l

Status of Women committee  We absolutely can. On our website, we have a qualitative and quantitative report of a project we did in collaboration with UBC, looking at mining in Baker Lake as a bit of a case study. We have fairly detailed recommendations in our report online, ranging from the negotiation of

Status of Women committee  That was beyond the scope of our project. It was really quite a small project.