Absolutely. I checked, and this is still happening.
Another issue with victims services is not so much out of the justice piece, but that the services are based on a middle-class, non-aboriginal model in which people in a community might have the resources to offer their volunteer time, but when they try to apply that model to aboriginal communities, they're forgetting that in some communities there are not a lot of people who have that kind of resource. They can't afford to buy gas for their cars to go visit victims. If they've already been victimized themselves, becoming a helper for other people can actually trigger a lot of the memories for themselves, so burnout rates are horrible. There's a huge problem throughout the province in getting aboriginal people in their communities to volunteer because there's too much baggage for them. It's too much. It's too heavy. At the end of the day, they deserve to be paid because their problems are important.