Thanks for the question.
Yes, exactly. Right now NWAC is finalizing.... We have until the end of April to finish a guide that we're developing for young aboriginal women, because as I mentioned we know that will set their voting patterns. So if we can reach them when they're young, they'll continue to vote. But we also know that they do have all these other barriers, such as the ones that we've listed and that have been mentioned.
Although for someone it sounds quite easy to just contact your band office and get the letter, it's a huge challenge for our women. Many of our aboriginal women are poor. As I said, they are moving two to three times a year. They could be fleeing violence. They don't have the finances to go and get ID made.
You know, simple things such as opening a bank account require you to have a specific ID, and many of the women who we work with aren't able to do that. So it's not an easy task. They don't have the capacity to know.... I mean, we can add that to our guidebook, that you can get a letter from your band, but again it's another burden that is being put on aboriginal people to have to come up with an extra chore to be able to vote, when other Canadians don't have that same barrier. We're already facing so many barriers in the existing situation.