Chair, I just want to thank the committee for indulging this and for taking the time, especially because I'm not a regular member. That was very gracious of everybody.
I'm not going to move my amendment. I'll wait for report stage.
I have to say that this is quite emotional for me because these aren't abstract concepts for our families and communities. This is something we live with daily. We are the ones who would be most impacted by this bill. To put forward a bill without acknowledging or considering history and the colonial legacy it has left us with, including.... I was sharing this with Mr. Housefather. They've developed a name: residential school survivor syndrome. They compare it to what veterans and survivors of war have. It's the same sort of psychology.
We're not taking that into consideration. If I see a war veteran in a mental health crisis doing something, I take that into consideration. I think about the trauma that person must have gone through. We have residential school survivor syndrome in our family. We have the highest rate of intimate partner violence. We have the highest rates of femicide and homicide among any population in this country.
I will bring this back at report stage. I want to thank the committee for its indulgence, but we've been punished enough. To ignore our history and the psychology and trauma that came out of it.... When is that punishment going to stop? When are you going to see us and take this as seriously as it needs to be taken?
I'll leave it at that. I want to thank the committee for indulging me and for the respect you've shown me. I really mean it. It really means a lot to me.