We looked at all levels of contributing factors—and this comes from the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence—including individual factors, family factors, community factors, and culture and society. You have to involve every single member of society for a national action plan to be successful. That means you have to get governments sensitized to these issues. You have to get the police, judges, lawyers, and social workers, and then you have to get the communities themselves to come on board.
What we see all the time is that we're in a crisis situation and the attitude is, let's try to put out the fires. But we also need to have prevention. That's what I was talking about before when I mentioned education.
So a national action plan is something that reflects not just the immediate needs, but also the needs and experiences we have as aboriginal people, which can help foster a healthier community to stop this violence.
If we look at the globalization of culture, we see that violence and sex are what sell in the media and the entertainment industry. It's not just about government legislation; it's about what our children are watching, it's about what our youth are watching. I think it's a really sad state we find ourselves in. Everybody likes to be entertained, but we're forgetting that the media has an extremely powerful role in whether or not society wants to end violence.