Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for appearing today. I'd also like to reiterate what my colleague Ms. McLeod had to say. I don't come from B.C., but I share a sense of shame about an issue that is ongoing and on which we don't appear to be making much progress.
I'd like to address this to any of you who may know the answer. I was compiling some of my notes. Our briefing notes said it was 520 native women. It was actually reported--I had CTV News on in my office--that it was 582 native women, that it had in fact increased by 62 women, over the past ten years.
I'm trying to find out whether any of you has any statistics about the previous ten years, say from 1990 to 2000, to give me some perspective. Has there been an increase in the number of women who are missing or who have been murdered, or is there any progress being made in trying to have this end?