You've given me a lot of food for thought and hopefully we can come back to that.
Ms. Dumont-Smith, thank you for your comment.
You specifically spoke to housing as an issue. Bill S-2 was quite frankly my proudest moment on this committee. I was incredulous when I learned that aboriginal women did not have matrimonial property rights, and hopefully that will address some of the issues, certainly for women in the case of marriage breakdown. I refer to my experience as a school trustee in the City of Winnipeg, where about 25% of our students were aboriginal, and there were many young women who were thrown out of their home because the marriage had broken down. They came to the city with a number of children and it's a very tough situation. I'm grateful that we've addressed Bill S-2.
But your group represents women. I think it was very courageous of Mr. Bellegarde to speak out—it was very recently on the front page of The Globe and Mail—saying that every member of his community has a role in this. Clearly he was looking to men and women.
What advice would you give him to engage the men and boys in the community in solving violence against women, because it's so crucial?