I would have to do some research on that.
For me on P.E.I.—I can only speak of my experience—when there's a missing person, they do put an alert out. It kind of goes to all our phones and there is an alert sound that comes. It says that there's a missing youth and please contact.... It doesn't have to necessarily be a murdered person. It could be a missing person. It could be somebody of interest that they're looking for. It is an alert sound that comes on our phones.
We go onto it, and it says they're looking for this person and you can notify.... Sometimes it could be a runaway who they later say has been found.
When you're looking at something like an Amber alert or a red dress alert, it can be the same concept, especially when you're looking at the most vulnerable who are homeless and living on the streets or couch surfing. They are the most vulnerable. If they're not contacting their family on a regular basis.... It took 10 days before this alert went.
We are now prepared for any alert or anything that's a red flag in our community. For indigenous women who are homeless and who we work with among the tent city, if we don't see them in the next day or two or three days—we have mobile teams out—we sound the alert within our organization. Then we start working with the police to sound that alert in the higher sense of putting it out to the province.
Again, talking to organizations that actually do the frontline work is realistic. There's no disrespect. There's the theoretical model. I'm not going to read off the MMIWG report—I spent three years creating that—and the MMIWG action plans. The theoretical models just don't work in most places. Each community has to develop a model that works for their community.
How impacted is the community? How involved is the community? How far-reaching is the community?
On P.E.I., we have three zones—Prince, Kings and Queens counties—so we can reach the whole island. Mine's a model that fits P.E.I., but I think each indigenous community has to fit its own model into this. I don't think we can put it into being a check-box thing. It's basically drawn from the community.