I can speak to that from an indigenous individual's context.
There are many hospitals across Canada that do have indigenous navigators or interpreters, particularly in areas where a significant amount of the population are indigenous patients. There are also community workers that are there as health representatives who can help interpret and support women.
If women have to leave their community and travel a far distance to access hospital-based services, and if they have linguistic or cultural distinctions that are important in terms of them being able to understand the information, they will receive support, not just in terms of their own individual transportation but also for transportation of that individual to escort them. That's what we mean when we say an escort.
An escort can be for interpretive services as well, if they require those.
I don't think it is perfect yet. I think there is a lot of awareness now within provincial and territorial systems, and there has been a great increase in those services compared with what there were 10 years ago, but I think that will be part of what the group will be looking at.
Are there still hospital areas where indigenous women are accessing sterilization procedures, or other specialized procedures that carry risks, especially in terms of informed consent, where we need to invest in better interpretive services?