I thank you for that question, because I think that's really critical. I don't have a quick answer to that, but I do want to point to some of the challenges we see in identification within the child welfare system, for example, when the system is coming into encounter with Métis children.
I myself did some research within the children's aid societies in Ontario, interviewing them and asking how they are dealing with Métis children and families. The problem is that often they do not know who Métis children are. If they happen to look brown, then they get treated a certain way. If they happen to look white, they probably aren't counted at all as a statistic. So there's no distinction being made when they are coming into contact with that service. I suspect challenges with police forces across Canada have encountered the same thing, which I'm assuming at least partly explains the lack of Métis-specific data in terms of missing women and children.