Something we've all talked about is probably the immense impact of colonial repression. I think if you look at the situation of indigenous girls and women in Australia, you'll see very similar situations. You'll see the over-criminalization. You'll see a majority of women and girls in prisons being indigenous. You'll see a staggering amount of violence. You'll see police failure. I think some of the things we've spoken about....
But on your first question, I know that the Native Women's Association of Canada will speak to you about data and data collection, if they haven't already, and what's happening with Sisters in Spirit. Obviously, they need to be supported to continue to collect data on missing and murdered women and girls.
More specifically, as far as statistics go in the RCMP, let's say, it's very hard to get numbers. For example, people think that there are laws against sexual exploitation in Canada and that those laws are enforced, and that's just not true. When it comes to men buying girls and boys for sexual exploitation, those men are not prosecuted very often, and they're not even charged very often.
It's very hard for us to get those numbers on how many men are charged because, for example, sexual exploitation is not separated specifically. That section of the Criminal Code, subsection 212(4), is not separately segregated by the police. It's just put by the police into “sexual assault--other” or “sexual offences--other”, so we actually can't even tell you how many men are charged with sexually exploiting children and youth in Canada right now. That number would be very useful for us, to be able to say, well, you know, it's ten men per province, and one or two are found guilty every year....