Thank you. Thank you very much for your understanding of what we were trying impart here.
I think we have to look at the political reality when it comes to the government who was ruling at that time.
Someone thinks sometimes we're ordinary Joes, but we're not. We listen to what is happening in the government with a steady ear and when is the best time to approach government. This is clearly not the right time to approach government when you want to refurbish and get a little bit more into your idea and support for it if the federal government is changed, and if even one or two people who were proponents for our cause are not there. We've learned very well that the bureaucracy has to also be changed. They have to be convinced that we are important too, and not just their high-paying jobs.
I know that you are collecting some very valid information. Nothing that I will say can add to that information about what the realities are out there, out on the street, and in behind the closed doors. But my reality is how do I help the women come together to make their ideas come and grow so that they can do the work in their own communities? That's the only way it's going to work. Having had almost 40 years of political experience in advocacy and a whole bunch of other things, I know that is the only answer. You could go and talk to all kinds of people--you need that element--but for your policies to be successful you need our people.
We can't always rely on our own leadership. Our own leadership denies us access. I'm lucky to be here. I found about this the day before yesterday. So we don't even have access of information and all of these things.
It's very important for a little group in the northern part of Ontario to know what is going on, when we need people who are going to work for that. I can't do it volunteering, as the other women are doing. We need to have resources. And I'm going to keep pressing that, no matter where I go, because without that we're not going to be as successful in saying what's wrong with the matrimonial property law, saying what's wrong, and how can we work together with the chiefs to make something real and good for our families.
I appreciate what is happening today. I know it may change in a few months—who knows. But I would like to see what we have said here today, all of us, go forward to become reality. And what is the percentage of that happening?
Thank you, Madam Chair.