The Sisters in Spirit initiative continues to this day. There's a little bit of confusion, I think, in that the Government of Canada funded it for five years, but it belongs to, and always has belonged to, the Native Women's Association of Canada. Sisters in Spirit, of course, continues to this day. The research that was funded by the government was the initial research to look at the root causes of some of the violence; it was also to collect information specifically on the cases of missing and murdered aboriginal women.
The NWAC was particularly invaluable in that, because there were, and remain, a lot of concerns in individual communities about cases of missing and murdered aboriginal women. The RCMP emphasized at all times...and I understand there are concerns, and certainly the Human Rights Watch report has mentioned some of those. I believe there's also frustration from the aboriginal policing side that many of these cases have never been reported. NWAC went out to do some of that original research. They came back with their numbers, and their numbers were the base for the government response in 2010. Their research was invaluable.