Well, I'll just tell you every one of those affects aboriginal communities, and us as a native women's association specifically.
I talked about Kelowna already.
The language issue, that's a huge one. I'll tell you right now that the language programs at home are already struggling, and for that program to be totally cut is totally wrong because it affects our future generations. The language programs were empowering our young people and empowering our elders to be able to do their job, because that's part of our culture and our tradition and our education system, for our elders to teach our youth and our young people. And that's what was happening in our communities, our elders were teaching our young people the language. I am hearing it in my own community that with this language cut, that's going to end in March, and they're struggling to figure out how it's going to continue. A lot of them are saying, “Well, we're going to go ahead with it anyway”, but the poverty issue is coming up again.
With respect to literacy, we have the statistics already about literacy issues and the effects it has.
With respect to the Status of Women, there are a lot of questions, a lot of issues with respect to the issue of advocacy. I mean, that's the whole purpose of the Native Women's Association, to advocate for aboriginal women across the country, and the research we do, and to provide policy development and policy advice.
We were just starting to work on an MOU with the Law Commission of Canada, to begin work on indigenous legal traditions with aboriginal women involvement, and with the leadership of aboriginal women in the community.
With respect to the court challenges program, we were using court challenges on a daily basis to argue and present section 15 arguments on equality rights for aboriginal women. So with that cut, again, it affects the impact we have to advocate for aboriginal women in the communities.