Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you so much for the conversation we're having tonight. I really appreciated the chair talking in terms of how formal that relationship is going to be.
I just have to say that I know we're talking about very difficult things, and maybe this is not going to be something we get to until we get further on in our report, but just a week or two weeks ago, I was at the BDC E-Spirit awards. Students from across the country went to Kamloops. It was fantastic to see the youth, the enthusiasm, the mentorship, and to see the business plans they were putting forward, knowing that these youth were going to be taking them back to the communities.
I see things that have been happening. We heard from different departments. We've heard of some of the work being done with Sisters in Spirit. I have to hope and believe that we're doing some things a whole lot better than we were doing in the sixties, seventies, and eighties.
What are the things we're doing where we're making good progress?
At each meeting so far, I've really been concerned about this whole area of statistics, and I'd really like to probe that.
Ms. Goodwin, you were saying you were having some significant success in terms of methods you use in terms of aboriginal status for the victims of crime. Perhaps you could talk a bit more about how you manage to gather the statistics, because I certainly know that Stats Canada and other groups have significant challenges there.