I will speak very quickly.
I work with the Indian Act sex discrimination working group. As many of you know, that's a coalition of the lead plaintiffs in the litigation and UN petitions that have been brought to deal with the sex discrimination with the largest first nations women's organizations in Canada, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs and Justice for Girls. It's a broad coalition of groups and individuals. It also includes the leading legal experts on this matter.
The frustration in that coalition of expert groups and individuals is profound. They've been dealing with this since Jeannette Lavell—whom you heard from this morning—did so in 1971. It's 50 years of dealing bit by bit with sex discrimination that transforms itself, takes a different shape and gets added to at the same time as bits are subtracted.
The frustration you hear from Jeannette, Dawn, Mary Hannaburg and Ingrid Green is profound. I hope the committee members will listen to it. This can't keep going on.