Thank you for being here today. I have a lot of questions for you.
I see a lot of money is being invested, and I am wondering where it all goes. Personally, I went to Nunavut and visited a shelter. That shelter receives $1 million per year, but there are things that I do not understand. There is no transition house or programming. The people at that shelter have no clothes. They have to beg for clothes for the children. They have to beg for clothes for the women at the shelter. The women have to stay there for more than six weeks because there is no transition house.
About $30 million a year go to 35 shelters, whereas we know that women's shelters in the Aboriginal communities receive $190,000 per year and that they are under-funded compared to shelters in the other Quebec communities, for example.
In some Aboriginal communities in Quebec, the situation is so tragic that some families have two or three children who commit suicide. I spent three days in Nunavut, in Iqaluit, and three young people, aged 15, 16 and 17, committed suicide. Money does not seem to be the answer. And maybe the way it is used is problematic. Are we working too much in our offices and not enough in the field?
It worries me a great deal to know that there is so much money allocated, currently $30 million per year, and the additional $56 million that were invested in 2007 over five years. That is a lot of money. Where did that money go? You talked about programs, Ms. Quinn, but that is not enough.
Ms. Morency, could you tell me what you are going to do with the $10 million that were invested in the justice system for the purpose of determining what happened with the unsolved murders? You are telling us that, since 2006, you have been investigating the unsolved murders, rapes and disappearances of Aboriginal women. What have you discovered during these four years? Have you shared your information with the people who work for the Sisters in Spirit initiative? Have you told us about your findings? Actually, we have been asking for an investigation for a few years, and now, you are telling us that you have been doing one. Obviously, we were not informed. Otherwise, we would not have asked for one.
I will stop at these two questions for the moment.