We can look at the history of the impacts of the Indian residential schools, and we can look at the intergenerational impacts and the decades of poverty that indigenous people have been living in. I see that every level of government that we've experienced in this country has never really addressed the root causes of violence and addictions that we face as indigenous people and in our communities.
It's more so when you're looking at the impacts on indigenous women and girls, two-spirit and gender-diverse people. If you look at it from a gender lens, we're at further risk from inaction by governments to address the root causes of the systemic failures we continue to experience in 2025.