Qujannamiik, Iksivautaq.
Thank you, Chair, and thank you to both witnesses for appearing today. I very much appreciate your report, because you highlighted the injustices that indigenous people continue to experience. I really hope that not just this committee but all parliamentarians read this important report, because you address a lot of things, including intergenerational trauma. You address the impacts of colonial and genocidal policies on indigenous people, and you provide very good recommendations to try to transform our justice system so that we do start seeing a reduction in the overrepresentation of indigenous people in this very oppressive system.
I wanted to just commend you on your great work.
I note, in the report you gave us, “Ten Years since Spirit Matters”, when you show us the data about the healing lodges, there are 10 healing lodges that you've listed, and out of those 10 lodges only two have seen 100% occupation. The rest have either been not reportable or seen lower incidences of occupation. I wonder if you could explain to us how that kind of result has come to be.
Is it, for example, that there is not enough information given to indigenous communities about the existence of these programming dollars to offer healing lodges? That kind of information would be super helpful.