As I said, I was the vice-president of probably one of the largest tribal councils in British Columbia. Under that we had USMA, which is a child welfare agency as well. So the role I played was monstrous, in the sense that I had to look after a lot of things.
Systemically, as we see on reserves in British Columbia, there are 203 of them. Within those reserves, many of them are isolated and semi-isolated or remote, and access to resources, such as the RCMP, hospitals, nurses, and social workers is absolutely not there.
There is not a full-time RCMP officer on every reserve.
Access is limited, and I believe that systemically, even in urban centres—and I do live in an urban centre—the likelihood of someone calling for help is minimal, because you don't want to put your kids at further risk.
So structurally this system doesn't allow for social workers to be in each community; they're not there. There is not health care in every community, and there's certainly not a hospital in every community.