Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I will be sharing my time with Ms. Rempel.
I want to thank our witnesses for being here today, and Ms. Porteous for joining us through video conference.
As one of our colleagues has already noted, we are in the early days of this study, and we have heard from a few witnesses already, many of whom I would suggest at this time are experts. But here I want to make special note of Rolanda, who I think is probably an expert in a class of people who have experienced violence and being thrown out of her home. I think stories are often far more compelling than we know, and so I want to thank you for being here and for sharing your story and your experience.
Ms. Porteous, in your opening remarks you made note of some of the suggestions you would make as a result of the work we are doing as a committee. You suggested that we needed to use current services and ensure that aboriginal women are on staff in those current services, that there should be cultural sensitivity training, and that these services should be collocated on reserves or in friendship centres whenever possible. I'm wondering if you would mind expanding a little on how you see us building that capacity to do that.