Status of Women committee  I would just add that there is room for the distinctions-based approach in the area of prevention.

Status of Women committee  There have been penalties, but if you go back to previous cases, I would say the penalties have not been meaningful at all. If anything, they've actually said that our lives are worth less because the penalties that have been—

Status of Women committee  No, not at all.

Status of Women committee  Each individual case is different. However, definitely it should be more than 18 months or two years for hitting somebody in the back of the head with a hitch and changing their life.

Status of Women committee  I agree a hundred per cent, but I would go even further and state that our mental health in Saskatchewan and across Canada is in crisis. There are people out there who are suffering with those same experiences right now, and in Saskatchewan, it takes two years to see a psychiatri

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, but I didn't even get the question. Was that a question as to why—

Status of Women committee  I think because a lot of us are the mothers. We're the aunties and the grandmothers. We've been the centre of our families. I think when it comes to the emotional stuff that goes with somebody going missing, it's usually the women who are on the ground doing the work. That w

Status of Women committee  It already has become political. As I stated, the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples has been involved with the MMIWG round table since 2016. February was the first time there was an in-person...in regard to the finalization since the completion of the calls for justice. Our organiza

Status of Women committee  Okay. We were told it was distinctions-based only, which is MNC, AFN and ITK.

Status of Women committee  Well, ultimately, our police services are overworked as it is, and lots of times when you're dealing with any issue of somebody missing, it takes a lot more time, effort and report processing than the police are able to put in. It could always start with an organization outside

Status of Women committee  That's correct.

Status of Women committee  I think this is very urgent. The calls for justice were completed. It would be interesting to know how many more women have gone missing or were murdered since the completion of the action plan. It's a daily thing, and for the families who have lost family members, it's too late.

Status of Women committee  It was a shot of the whole room, so I was just making sure. That would be what I have to say at this point.

Status of Women committee  Hello. My name is Charlene Lavallee. I'm the president of the Association of Métis, Non and Status Indians Saskatchewan. We have community charters across the province in several different areas on the northwest side of Saskatchewan, which is very remote, and in northeast Saskat