Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'm going to pick up from Hedy's comments, and from Nicole's comments, because she touched on something I was going to ask, and that is in regard to the social violence and how it's perpetuated through communities.
Specifically, is the lack of affordable housing an issue here in Prince Albert and in other communities, the communities you serve? Could you describe your experience with that?
In terms of poverty, it seems to me.... Someone mentioned the fact that first nations people are often denied a job. They show up looking for a job and it's, “No, not you, we don't want you.” So to what degree is unemployment feeding that social violence in terms of what we're all talking about, that need for job training? Someone told us this morning that a lot of first nations people just don't have the skills or the academic background to get the training they need.
Finally, would some kind of child care, some kind of affordable and dependable child care, help women who are perhaps looking for training, trying to find a job, or just trying to sort themselves out in terms of dealing with addictions or the trauma of the abuse they have experienced? Would all of those things be part and parcel of what we've been talking about in terms of a community helping itself?