Thank you so much.
I'm going to turn to the Comox Valley Transition Society and the Alberni Community and Women's Services Society.
Your MP, Gord Johns, recommended that we invite you. It was good advice. Thank you.
Ellen Frood, I was struck by your linking of residential schools and intergenerational trauma to the clients you see. Last night I saw on a CBC online story a quote from Cree Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come. After 40 years of service, he said that the absence of women's shelters and social programs often forces Cree people to head toward urban centres, where they risk homelessness and abuse.
Is that starving of services in the rural areas something that you're seeing effects from?