Thank you very much for the question. I think it's an important one.
Throughout our history, Canada has failed to respect the basic human rights of indigenous women and girls. You can see that in how indigenous women and girls were treated, the theft of children into residential schools, forced sterilizations, scalping bounties and the institutionalization of women, of course. Also, throughout the Indian Act, indigenous women were treated as not being Indian enough to belong to their communities, which set them outside of their communities and put them at risk. There's a long history of law and policy in that regard.
There's also what's happening today, such as the continued forced foster care situation theft of women, the sexual assaults by state actors like the RCMP, police, doctors and nurses—