Status of Women committee  Definitely. We're working with indigenous elders here and indigenous scholars to lead circles of support. They need to be indigenous-led and supported. I hope more funding and support will go to indigenous communities, as well as immigrant and racialized communities, because a lot of the support happening for men by men happens in the community and through peer support, and we know that's quite an effective near-peer model.

Status of Women committee  Okay, sorry.

Status of Women committee  Yes, I definitely agree. I also think certain populations get over-policed in Canada. We are working closely with the Calgary Police Service, and have been for two years, trying to change the discrimination and bias that happen within policing, so that they can better support the Calgary community.

Status of Women committee  Sure, and thank you for the question. If we think about the systems of oppression and how we organize ourselves, we organize ourselves around these grand narratives. You can see it play out in systems and processes. One example I can give is that as the federal government is moving to give child welfare authority back to indigenous communities, that's the way you're dismantling colonialism.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for raising that, because I truly believe the answer to resolving and preventing domestic intimate partner violence and sexual violence is in a reparative, transformative way that is outside the criminal legal system. The federal government can play a significant role in supporting this stream of funding and services, and the adaptation and adoption by multiple stakeholders across Canada that are trying to do this kind of work in communities.

Status of Women committee  That's a great question. I think equity-deserving groups have been left out of the mainstream services for quite some time. Lots of grassroots community organizations and associations do a great job in servicing, but I don't think the mainstream services have taken up enough, I would say, capacities to actually transform their own services to better serve the unique populations that you're talking about.

Status of Women committee  I'm happy to jump in on that. I think Canada has been investing, particularly [Technical difficulty—Editor] trying to scale up, where they're actually targeting grade 7, 8 and 9 boys to do gender-transformative and human rights work so they can be woken up around their own experiences of socialization around male norms, healthy relationships, gender equality and equity and so forth.

Status of Women committee  I'll end there. Thank you so much for the opportunity to be here, and I look forward to a robust discussion.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and committee members, for inviting [Technical difficulty—Editor] privilege to be here with you today. I want to thank each of you for your service to ending intimate partner violence in Canada. I'm calling from the town of Canmore, Alberta, which is located within the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.