Thank you for that.
In the Northwest Territories, we have a few safe houses and shelters, but not very many. They are usually just in the regional centres, and we don't have any treatment, alcohol treatment centres, any treatment centres or facilities of that nature. So a lot of times individuals in the community, including women, will turn to the aboriginal organizations, their friendship centre, the band councils, the Métis Nation, or the native women's associations.
Now I've talked to everyone of these organizations, and their budgets have been cut to where they really can't function. They're almost at a point where they're looking at maybe closing their doors.
So there are still a lot of big issues out there. So what do you do in the case of gender discrimination? I heard a lot of discussion on this in my talks. If somebody goes to you and says their wages are not on par with men in the same field or sector or they are only hiring men, where do you refer people? What do you do with these people who are coming to you if you don't have the resources to deal with them yourself?