I will try to be brief.
Ms. Blackstock, my question is for you.
Aboriginal communities have always been excluded from economic life and society in general. I have travelled throughout Canada and that was the first thing I noticed. I was 17 or 18 years old and I could see that a whole segment of society was living as though it were from another planet, as though it were made up of strangers. Could that be one of the sources of the problem? All of these disappearances, as well as the problems related to prostitution and substance abuse... Are they not simply consequences of that premise?