One of the things we had been proposing when we were at the announcement in Ontario for Jordan's Principle and the understanding that the needs of the child come first was that you can do your jurisdictional wrangling later, after the fact, but make sure the needs are met immediately and that nobody should be sitting waiting while the levels of government decide who is going to be responsible. Something along those lines needs to be put in place in these situations for addressing violence against aboriginal women and aboriginal women's services. We must stop fighting about who will be responsible, and make sure they get the needs met immediately; then we can discuss the issues afterwards. The model is out there. It's something we can certainly look to as a first step.
On January 14th, 2011. See this statement in context.