I do want to touch on it, because it happens all the time, and it happens particularly in communities that are small, northern, rural, isolated, remote and indigenous.
It's a lack of resources. It's because we don't have enough bodies in the community. We keep getting money for program dollars, but then the program dollars dry up, and we go from having eight people to one person, so there aren't more people in the community to be able to do that kind of support. Then continuity becomes really important when we're trying to address these issues in smaller communities.
You said something about this idea of putting somebody in jail and the policing of indigenous women's bodies. I do also want to speak to that. We know that indigenous women are more policed than other people, more than indigenous people in general are in Canada. One of the things I'll offer before I have to leave is that there's been a lot of talk about punishment and throwing people in jail and what that looks like.
Punishment and accountability are two different concepts. One really invites the opportunity for someone to be accountable and rehabilitate their life, and the other just says that they're a horrible person who gets thrown away. This kind of culture of disposability isn't working either way. It's not working for any of us—men, women, any of our children, any of the future generations.
Instead of punishing, we need to rethink ways to invite accountability into our conversations so that people can take that step to rehabilitation and make the changes in their own world and in the way that they're choosing to treat other people.