As one of the largest aboriginal organizations here in Winnipeg, we are always looking for ways to be in a meaningful relationship with funding partners. It's a two-way street around really building the relationship with the community to identify what key resources we need to facilitate the work. Those opportunities don't happen very often with the federal government.
So it's a matter of looking at common tables to develop what those priorities are going to be and then looking for the resources that can come from that. It would give us an opportunity to say that when we are looking in particular at victims of organized crime, the current system is very siloed. But having the opportunity to sit down...it's very complex. It takes a long time for a woman or even a child who has been victimized...and we need to have a long-term plan and long-term resources for that.
In the current situation we're lucky that it's three years. That's a bonus. But you just start building and start women and children on their healing journeys and you need to fight for the buck again.
I think there are always opportunities to sit down and create strategies together that come with resources that are holistic.