I certainly have found all of this very enlightening. I appreciate the work that has gone into each of your presentations and all the work you continue to do.
I've looked at this, and perhaps there are some missing pieces. Maybe they've been addressed in other ways and I'm not familiar with them, but when I look at things I want to see the more holistic approach: what all the factors are.
Ms. McCarney, you in particular talk about putting the complete data together, but is it going to be complete enough? Are there going to be portions of it that would deal with the various types of home environments, ethnic environments, and cultural environments and what piece they have? What piece does media have, whether it be the gangster rap or the degrading type of music videos? What portion of it does sports have? Perhaps we should be looking.... The Argos' program and all of those things are great, but I also see that on American sports teams, in particular—I'm not too familiar with what is going on in Canadian sports teams—there are significant numbers of rapists, convicted rapists, on American sports teams. These people are being idolized. They're NBA players or whatever they are and they're being idolized by these young folks.
The folks who grew up in the fifties, sixties, and seventies had this thing about women liberating themselves and becoming equal. Society in itself has taken a massive turn; it has gone all the way around a corner in latter years and is putting women back down on that slope. Women rose, but they've taken a turn by virtue of some of this sort of stuff, because the girls are seeing in these videos that's what they are supposed to be like, that the gangster rap is acceptable. For some of the stuff that we're filling young people's heads with, I question why we're allowing that stuff to happen. Is that wholesome? Is it giving them good nurturing and an understanding of what life is about, or is it giving them a twist on what...?
How do you figure in all of those factors? They all exist. How do you figure all of them into how we move forward?