I travel extensively in the province, and the communication to my members is this, and I know this is relayed across the force: you will treat all persons in Manitoba with the same level of dignity, respect, professionalism, and compassion as you would any other person. What does that mean? Does that mean that when you show up at a house in a northern Manitoba community and there's been domestic violence you have the same resources available to you that you may have in Winnipeg or Brandon or Dauphin? No, it doesn't. It means exactly the opposite. In some cases the ability to remove a husband from the home or the ability to find kids adequate care is very, very, challenging. What we try to do is find family members and locate people and put them in areas of safety.
The one point I do want to get across is that no one agency in the north, or even in the south, can do this alone. It has to be a partnership activity. There has to be the ability for Child and Family Services, for the RCMP, for Awasis, for all of the agencies to come together and work together to find solutions for this.
I've heard many people talk about addictions this morning. I've heard many people talk about communities that are in a state of crisis. And that is true. There is little doubt that those are some of the overriding issues.
As far as systemic racism, what do we do--