In the same way that Debbra Redsky has addressed this as well, we need to be working with local first nations and indigenous urban communities when the resource sector is coming into town to start developing those safety plans.
I would say the same things. We need really in-depth criminal records, and setting some no-tolerance rules for violence that are within an employee's contract so there doesn't have to be a proof of violence at the end of the day through the criminal justice system, because indigenous women don't go through the justice system for the most part. It's not safe for us. We really need to work closely with the sector to develop some really strong safety plans.
The trouble for me in this process is that the onus falls on indigenous women and organizations to create safety plans for ourselves. We really need to balance that with creating strong safety plans through the resource sector itself. Government needs to work with us to hold that resource sector accountable for these safety plans, because if indigenous women are not going to the police and reporting violent crimes—and there are plenty of stats to say that we don't—then we need to find other ways to address this. That is putting some really strong human resource policy around safety for local women, for those workers who are working in those work camps.