We have been speaking with the RCMP and also working with the Winnipeg Police Service. One of the areas around identification concerns police not feeling comfortable asking the question, not being trained in a way to be culturally appropriate.
That's where one of the barriers is. Another barrier is that it is perceptions-based in the police. It's the perception of the police officer who identifies the aboriginal identity of a victim, which is often identified as aboriginal in a pan-aboriginal approach, as opposed to first nations, Métis or Inuit specific. This creates huge problems around the actual and accurate numbers for the aggregate.
What we need to do, I think, is work better with police. The police force...in particular RCMP, which cover 75% of all policing jurisdictions in Canada, systematically refuse to answer the question of identity because there are different jurisdictions and different detachments of RCMP that collect information or don't collect information, and there can be no accurate response to the question of ethnic identity.