Yes, I totally agree, and I did work in the far north in setting up a shelter in Nunavut. I have some direct experience with both the levels of violence and the impossibility, as my colleague said, of just incarcerating everyone who offends, because it's so endemic that you would literally be incarcerating the whole community.
Clearly, the responses need to be more broadly based. I would say that your resident expert is NWAC. NWAC works well with the indigenous northern women's organizations, all of which have very well worked out plans for how to stem the tide of violence against them.
The leadership within the indigenous women's community is some of the strongest in this country. They are some of the most articulate about how to deal with these issues, including the native friendship centres, which have just changed their name to “indigenous friendship centres”. You have great leadership in places such as Ontario, which is tackling the issues of gender-based violence as well.
Certainly, I would start with NWAC. They've done amazing work on this. They were the cry in the dark around murdered and missing indigenous women when no one was listening.