I really don't feel it is because of the fact that these basic issues, as I said earlier... A standard of service on reserve that is equivalent to off reserve.... So levels of support for victims, standards of policing and safety, and standards of child welfare are not equivalent to what are available off reserve.
There is a significant expenditure. I believe federal Aboriginal Affairs spends about $67 million per year for aboriginal child welfare. In British Columbia the province spends about $150 million per year. There is an expenditure, I'm not sure it's adequate, but it certainly doesn't lead to equivalent services. One of the key issues I recommended repeatedly is that there be a stronger strategy and a stronger national presence on that strategy.
The approach the federal government has taken, at least in British Columbia from what I can see, is they contract for services with a province, and the province provides the service. They contract only for a very narrow scope of service. They take no fiduciary or other obligation for whether or not those services actually meet the needs of people or reach them, and when they clearly don't reach them or meet the needs, it's left up to no man's land to resolve. On the ground this is where things really fall apart in the lives of vulnerable citizens and particularly first nations girls.