Thank you, Madam Chair.
I use a stopwatch, not because I don't trust your timing. I use it to guide the flow of my own questions and answers. So I apologize if it seems as though I cut you off.
I have a particular interest following on my questions earlier, and I'm going to ask a few of you questions along those lines. I made reference to the Sisters in Spirit recommendation flowing from two literature sources. One in particular was what your stories tell us, and there was a two-stream approach recommended there, a proactive or preventive stream that would increase safety and decrease vulnerability, and the second was the needs of the families and communities. I'm going to try to get to the needs of families and communities. Specifically, I'll speak to Ron perhaps about his work in corrections, for some recommendations with the perpetrators of this.
I'm going to go to you, Christine, and I'll try to get to Dawn as well. Unfortunately today we didn't hear from Sunset Women's Aboriginal Circle in Sioux Lookout, which is running a project right now to empower aboriginal women through economic and social development. My friend Millie in Dryden runs a great program. I did an announcement there not too long ago. The program is looking at the participation of Métis women in governance, and I spoke a little earlier about this at the committee meeting in Sioux Lookout.
I'm going to go to you and then to Dawn to talk about specific projects and programs--and perhaps the need for benchmarks, if they already exist--that deal with social, economic, and particularly governance-empowerment processes.
I'll stop there. We have three minutes and 12 seconds.