In the short time I have.... I think most of you know my history when it comes to the violence-against-women issues. You know some of the things we've done with Joy Smith, and about her receiving international recognition on the human trafficking side. I know this committee has done a great deal of work.
Sisters in Spirit, if I can just touch on that quickly, is a program of $1 million per year over five years, so $5 million in total. It's coming to a close in 2010, and I want you all to know that I have already engaged in the process of what Sisters in Spirit 2 would look like. I'm working with the Native Women's Association—of course, this is a program that is spearheaded by them—to identify the number of women who have been victims of racialized, sexualized violence, to promote the need for us to pay more attention to it, and to develop a plan on how we'll get to the root causes, so that we can see an end to this violence.
Coming into this with the extensive experience I had had on sexual assault in working as a crisis intervention volunteer, I can't even put into words how I felt to learn and realize the violent situation that aboriginal women are dealing with—