First, in relation to our work plan with the RCMP, the number one item is in relation to accessing data for suicide and suicide attempts and self-harm. In trying to implement our national Inuit suicide prevention strategy, to date we have not had a comprehensive picture of deaths by suicide that is disaggregated, Inuit-specific data. The RCMP can help with providing that dataset. We are just at the very beginning of having conversations about how to access datasets in an Inuit-specific way while also keeping all the established structures in place for confidentiality, disaggregation of data and those sorts of things. It's essential in order to do better for our communities.
On the language issue, in cases where there is a threat of violence or in cases where there have been deaths, where the RCMP has actually killed an Inuk, the family members, especially in a time of crisis, are going to want to speak their mother tongue. They're going to want to speak their language. The inability of many people in a time of crisis to be able to understand what is happening to them, what has happened to a loved one or what the next steps will be creates an unfortunate, tragic response where people feel as though they were not served. They feel their loved one was taken from them. They don't feel there's any accountability for the system to interact with them as human beings.
Ultimately, that's what I've heard a lot from individuals who have experienced these things. They don't feel they're treated as human beings. We can do better. I know we can do better within Canada to provide policing services to Canadian citizens.