Status of Women committee  Yes, 100%. There is even a struggle there, too, because we're literally in the trenches. Finding someone that we could hire to write a proposal is even a hard thing to do with folks when we're right in it. However, it's definitely a step in the right direction. I strongly encou

Status of Women committee  I can answer that question. Nothing. It's all just community.... It's all volunteer-based. Our auntie is our elder who is looking out for us. Beside that, there's really nothing. It feels like we're constantly in survival mode and grief. That conversation about reconciliation,

Status of Women committee  I barely heard the translation. Could you repeat it?

Status of Women committee  Yes, but not so much on the Indian Act. I didn't want to add too much about that. But your point about political will is so important. We see it all the time. One of my biggest critiques of how reconciliation has been handled by the current Liberal government is that they go to

Status of Women committee  Thank you for your question. I'll respond in English. There are so many. I wouldn't even know where to start, but off the top of my head, I agree that there has to be a study specifically for indigenous women, girls and two-spirit folks. What happens a lot in these big studie

Status of Women committee  Oh man, there are so many things.

Status of Women committee  I think so, 100%. A lot of the conversations about the status of women and girls in Canada are about self-care and getting time off work, and vacation and equal pay. We're not even at the same conversation. We're not even talking about that. I haven't had a day off in 10 years.

Status of Women committee  Thanks for the question. I'll try to answer it as quickly as possible. Within our group of indigenous youth who we work with, the majority are women or two-spirit folks. Within how we do things in a community-based approach, we're able to take care of each other through peer-to

Status of Women committee  Yes, that's a really important question. A lot of services right now are crisis based, as you were just mentioning, and we need to move into prevention, into methods of prevention. We've also done a lot of reports on children in care, and that's what children in care also ask

Status of Women committee  [Witness spoke in indigenous language] [English] Hi, everyone. My name is Gabrielle Fayant. I'm the co-founder and a helper with the Assembly of Seven Generations. I do want to also add a trigger warning. The realities of indigenous women and girls are very harsh. I wanted to