Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you so much for being here and sharing your expertise with us. We're very grateful.
I have a couple of questions. I am going to share my time with Ms. Ashton, so I'll try to be succinct.
Here's the first thing I wondered about. Three years ago, the Standing Committee on the Status of Women undertook a consultation across the country with first nations communities and with organizations that helped women, that dealt with women. One of the things we heard all too often was that there was a lack of trust among these women in police services. They felt very often that they weren't dealt with properly or fairly. In some cases, they were incarcerated. Their children were taken away.
My question is, how do you create that trust? How do you go about establishing a positive relationship in that regard? Is it a national awareness campaign? Is it education for police services? How do we do that?
That's for whoever would like to answer.