As my colleague said earlier, some of the work we do provides recommendations and actions to other agencies that have far greater fiscal capacity to act. I look toward our infrastructure spend. Those are the kinds of things on a broad scale that will start to work on alleviating not just violence, but poverty and economic disparity, and improve people's opportunity to gain education.
I must say, working on the ground, if people don't have a safe place to live then they can't focus on the next step. They can't focus on getting a job. They can't focus on.... In some cases they don't even have clothes for the next day. You can't keep your clothes because you have no place to keep them, and they're being stolen.
These kinds of basic needs are what we're talking about when we're talking about social infrastructure, and it's going to be critical in terms of moving forward on this file and many of my colleagues' files. As well we have a number of projects that work on looking at ways to work with women who have experienced violence, but more importantly to work with young women and girls to start to prevent the violence that's happening. We are very focused, and we're expanding our scope to include work with young men and boys because we know that we have focused for so long on young women and girls that we've almost forgotten to have the conversation with young men and boys about their responsibility to end gender-based violence
These are some of the actions we can take right now. I'm excited about the potential in terms of supporting indigenous communities to have a better quality of life and how that will impact on many of the social conditions we see across those communities.