Thank you for the opportunity.
Yes, I believe that everyone suffers. We've been addressing equality issues, as an organization, for 33 years. The reason the Native Women's Association of Canada exists in the first place is because of the inequality within our own communities. We, as aboriginal people, have been in this country for hundreds and hundreds of years. Now the situation for our women is that they are the marginalized of the marginalized. So if we're to study gaps, if we're to study the impacts of all of the inequalities occurring in this country, I don't understand why this still continues and has actually worsened.
So if it's worsening for us, where is the balance? There's no balance when it comes to aboriginal women and non-aboriginal women, specifically. So everybody suffers. Everybody suffers in our community and in society when society isn't aware of all these discriminatory issues we're talking about. If we were to address it in a positive way, and court challenges helped us to do that, then it would assist everybody. Yes, everybody suffers: our community, our women, and our children.