Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  With regard to some of the time constraints, it's not really our business to tell you how to do your business, but from what we have heard just in the one session we were fortunate enough to have on September 28 this year with women of the communities from across this country, a card will not make me expire.

Status of Women committee  Francyne would like me to help you with that answer. In regard to cyber-violence, once again, we're trying to make sure that there's information for the homes where Internet is available—recognizing that there are economic factors with families being able to afford it, so the luxury of having Internet in the home is one consideration.

Status of Women committee  Sure. I can't speak for my Inuit partner organizations. However, I am aware of the statistics, and I am aware of the, shall I call it, applaudable effort of their wanting to address something. That's better than nothing. At the same time, five shelters over five years is, again, going to be a band-aid solution.

Status of Women committee  We have just had a conversation with some of our external partners who are looking at urban and rural programs. The need is not only for shelters in the cases of violence, but also in cases where women are being thrown out of their homes because of substance, alcohol, or drug abuse, or because there are financial complications.

Status of Women committee  Okay.

Status of Women committee  The short answer is no. Sometimes we know that, in the cases that get brought before either the law enforcement, or to a triage unit in a hospital or a clinic, the questions about your ancestry or your origins are not ones that are going to be prevalent. It is going to be about drugs or medications or if there is someone they should be contacting.

Status of Women committee  We have a couple of them in Ontario, but mostly in central Canada. In Ontario, I'm aware of a program, “men in hide”. They learn how to deal with domestic violence, intimate partner violence. This is also another issue or topic that is being dealt with in some of the mainstream organizations vis-à-vis men.

Status of Women committee  We have had an opportunity to work with the Canadian Federation of Students in the past. Some of the issues got bogged down, of course, by their studies, which we want them to do, but at the same time, by other issues that were much more pressing at the time. We are still somewhere on their radar.

Status of Women committee  We have worked through the years with some of the provincial-territorial member associations and their external stakeholders in addressing this very issue and making Internet and public surfing safe. We're showing how to protect the webcams at home, making the home much more Internet-savvy, and looking at campaigns that would help address this at school without scaring our youth or the teachers, but helping them with information to make informed decisions about how long and where you're going to serve, how to look at safety mechanisms, and how to plug up certain words so that the parents can catch it if they can.

Status of Women committee  Yes, Mr. Fraser, there has been. However, we haven't given much credence to it, because of the numbers that have varied between what has been collected by law enforcement, what has been collected by Statistics Canada, and what has been collected or reflected by our resources at Native Women's Association.