We're not just going to talk about Ontario and Quebec. We need to talk about what you now call Canada as a whole.
I'll give you an example. With the Inuit nation, those mothers, those expectant mothers, have to be displaced from their communities and their families, with only one individual to accompany them as a support system, and have to travel hours and hours, sometimes 40 hours, in order to get to a nursing station to have a non-Inuit or non-native practitioner provide care that is unsafe, lacking cultural bias to their birthing right. That in itself has to be recognized. A solution-based policy would be to provide access in our traditional territories. We do not want to be displaced anymore, and that goes from coast to coast to coast when it comes to our circle of life.
Even here in an urban setting, as you're asking, it wasn't by choice that we were located to urban settings, but I can say that 80% of the indigenous population in what we now call Canada has been displaced to urban settings so that they can have the same access to care that all of you on this call have.
We continue to have to fight for this, to reclaim who we are as indigenous people in these first territories with limited access to resources and constantly needing to justify why we require it. Right from birth to death, this is our ongoing struggle and our ongoing education that we need to provide to newcomers, to government officials, to everyday people walking down the street, to break down what you've learned and provide you with a different education so you know the true history in Canada.