Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Ms. Blackstock, for being here. You and I were both just at the aboriginal affairs committee listening to the discrepancies in the delivery of child protection and child services across the country.
We have just travelled the country. I haven't been everywhere with the committee, but I certainly did all of western Canada on the issue of violence against aboriginal women, as you're undoubtedly aware. The issues you raise here are critical to families. What we also heard in our travels is the conundrum, the dilemma, that women have in reporting violence, abuse, or dysfunction in their homes because of the very real fear of having their children taken away.
All of what you said this morning feeds into that. I wonder if you could speak to your experience with the mothers who have to come forward or who don't come forward because of their fears of what will happen to their children.