I think Bill C-31 was one of our first and most significant accomplishments. That was our rallying call, where women got together so that indigenous women had the right to be indigenous, that we had a right to be members of our communities, to be who we were, and to regain that. That was carried on to the next generation, with Sharon McIvor and the McIvor decision, which allowed the next generation to have the right to be indigenous and to have a right to be members of their first nation communities.
That's a huge accomplishment, but also I think one of our largest accomplishments, as a result of 30 years of struggle, has been to bring attention to the issue of violence, something that nobody wanted to talk about and nobody wanted to hear. There was the notion that once economic development was dealt with, the violence wouldn't be a problem. It was a struggle just to start having those conversations and the fact that the Sisters in Spirit initiative—even if we had to go to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to get an investigation, to have them here in Canada, to have the human rights violation identified, exposed, and hopefully dealt with.... It's the same thing with the United Nations. We are using those kinds of international human rights protocols to shine a light and expose the human rights violations here in Canada. That has made a significant difference and has catapulted us into this process, and we are now at the first steps of making long-term change by addressing that violence.