Thank you, Chair.
Thanks to both of the witnesses for their testimony.
Ms. Audette, I'm interested in asking you something about the recommendations from the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls report. In particular, I want to focus on one recommendation that may be helpful to us.
In section 9.4, it says, “We call upon non-Indigenous police services to ensure they have the capacity and resources to...protect Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people.” It goes on to say, “We further call upon all non-Indigenous police services to establish specialized Indigenous policing units within their services located in cities and regions with Indigenous populations.” I'm focusing on that, because I think we're looking for ways of policing in not only indigenous communities but in urban areas.
Is this a potential method for allowing at least a practical start to indigenous integration into police services to better serve the huge indigenous population—more than half—who are in urban areas? Would this work?
Second, because I may not have a chance to have a second question, as someone with some experience with the provincial government in Quebec, do you think this could be funded by the Government of Canada to support its indigenous mandate in non-federal policing?
If you have any questions, please let me know.