Thank you, Chair, and thank you to all the witnesses for reminding us how important it is to invest in families, and in women in particular, and that it pays dividends in every way for the whole country. Thank you for the work you're doing.
To Mr. Meikle from the Saskatoon Downtown Youth Centre, can you draw for us a little bit more of a picture of the impact of interrupting parenting and interrupting families, and how that leads to the two-pronged problem that this committee is studying—not only the rate of incarceration of indigenous women, but also what many of us perceive as indigenous women's unfair treatment in the justice system?
We've been hearing from witnesses about access to legal aid, about the feeling that the police are not a safe place to go to. All of those pieces can end up landing indigenous women in jail, often through no fault of their own. Can you take us back to that family interruption and how that can get us deeper onto a bad path?