I think the work of Michael Chandler and Lalonde, in B.C., has probably come to this committee already. If not, it will.
It's the notion that any community that develops more and more self-efficacy or self-government, has its own agreements, has its own police force, all the way up to true self-governance.... The higher you get on that sort of scale, the more resilient you become, and the youth in that community become more resilient to suicide.
The idea, then, is that if we can't create structures—and that's fine—then what we can do is make sure that we act within at least a policy framework. That means, if we're going to act, we have to engender more empowerment. We have to engender more authority for people over their own lives. That's even if it's small things, small agreements, or opportunities for youth to meet and speak peer to peer and support each other. As long as it's supportive of empowerment, I think anything we do will be better than what we're doing.