Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Good afternoon, ladies. Thank you for being with us this afternoon.
Obviously, this is an extremely important study that I think could also be very promising for indigenous women and girls who are facing challenges.
We're looking at how we can land, in a relevant and efficient way, a system called a “red dress alert” so that there will never again be any indigenous girls or women who fall into the wrong hands, in particular, or find themselves in impossible situations and lose their lives.
Ms. Cooper, how do you see this system? Do you see this as a national system? Who do you think should be involved in this organization, or who should be involved?
We felt and still feel that we want to have police forces as partners, but we don't necessarily want to have them as managers of this organization. I don't think a lot of people around the table are questioning the relevance of this system. I think there are questions about how to organize it.
What are your thoughts on that? Practically speaking, how do we set up this system? Who would do that? What would the cost be? Who's going to fund it? Would it be available across the country? What do we do with places where there's no cell reception, for example, and so on?
How do you see this system?