Yes, I'd like to comment as well. One of the things that Pauktuutit takes exceptional pride in is that any project, any program we deliver within the communities, starts with the communities.
All of our projects are driven by advisory committees made up of community members, local subject-matter experts, and input from our partners, which are often the land claims organizations, the GNWT, the GN, and the Nunavik Regional Government. We start off by going in and saying: “Here's an idea. Let's work together. You tell us what's going to work for you”. We do that rather than going in and saying, “We think you need to do this”.
This model has been exceptionally successful in that it creates community mobilization. From the inception of the project to the delivery, the end of the project, the community has a stake in what's going to happen. All of our projects are tailored to the needs of the specific communities. We'll go in with the model and that model gets adapted to what the community needs are.
Not unlike what Lyda was saying, we see it nationally that women are fearful of going into safe shelters--if they're even available in the northern communities--out of the fear that their children are going to be taken away. Even if they go to the shelter, the protocols and procedures of various organizations that need to come together in order to support a women's transition to safety are incongruent and often opposing. So you need to be on the housing list, but in order to get on the housing list you need a letter from income supports to say that you're going to get income support. But if your husband has damaged the residence you're at, you're still responsible for the arrears. It is a vicious cycle that keeps women down.
One of the major concerns that we've had, Anita--and we've spoken of it--is that lack of sustained funding for shelters. We have 53 northern remote fly-in communities. As of today, we have 14 operational shelters.