I'm struggling with how to answer that.
For me, the prime mover around the violence here is the colonization that happened and the oppression and trauma that have impacted whole communities.
On top of that, other stressors that are in place certainly keep the pot stirred around things. And poverty has a huge impact on families. It's hard work to be poor. It's hard work to try to meet your ongoing needs. So it definitely has an impact.
Once again, for me, it's housing, housing, housing, as the key driver. We see so many situations with overcrowding. That leads to stress and things fall out of that--arguments. We have lots of requests, as a shelter, for women to come from Nunavut and from small communities here in the territory because they want to relocate to Yellowknife where there are more services and more housing, although certainly not enough housing. You see that migration. You see the pressure. You see agencies and women themselves saying, “We feel like we have no options.”
For me, the big driver is that huge cultural disruption that happened over a long period of time, and that still has an impact, and the housing situation.