Well, for on reserve and off reserve, the problem is that there's just no possibility for women, especially in matrimonial property. Because the Indian Act really favours the men, in the dissolution of marriage it's usually the man who gets the house. When women leave the communities to go to urban areas because of violence, they often have to live in very poor sections of cities where they experience racism and abuse by landlords.
I think it would help. I'm getting a sense—and this is why cultural sensitization is so important—that the problem aboriginal women face is very similar to that of poor women living on the farm. In my culture in particular, we were farmers, and because of the diminishing land base we cannot be farmers anymore, and because of pollution we cannot be farmers anymore.
So I think that housing is a very important part, or at least a step in the right direction for providing economic security for aboriginal women.