Certainly one of the difficulties is not having the information to be able to target appropriate resources. We've asked for gender-based analysis on the aboriginal human resources development agreements and have yet to receive that. They explain that there are a number of barriers, why that can occur, so we go by the numbers of women who are waiting for employment and training funds to come down. That's what we have to gauge, although we know that numbers of aboriginal women are having to leave reserves as a result of losing everything because of a lack of matrimonial property protection on reserve.
Aboriginal women are frequently starting at a lower level than most Canadian women would have to if they were starting their lives over again. They have to leave everything on-reserve, for those who live on-reserve, and go to urban centres where there is little or no support. Friendship centres are certainly there, but not to the extent of resources that are needed in the community. So they frequently are at the bottom of the list for every opportunity that's there, and not knowing the community because they've just left their home communities and all their safety networks. So there are all the other issues, as well as being targets in the community for violence.
There are lots of issues that impact why, if she does have an opportunity to get a job, she can't stay there, because she's going to work with a black eye, or her child care that she has kind of put together has fallen apart, or she or her children are now experiencing health issues. This all begins to affect, then, this lightly put-together job that she's trying for the first time in her life, without any real supports and without any information that helps us target, and change, and evolve these programs in the way that they need to evolve.