Thank you for that question. I have a couple of suggestions.
One, there could be investment in developing local transportation routes. Greyhound abandoned the west completely, and there's nothing, so I think some investment in local companies, local initiatives, maybe indigenous companies running the buses so that they create that safety and that's built in.
Another is, for example, in the big city, the role of the native friendship centres to create what we call “new in town”, going out and finding people who are at risk as they migrate into the cities. One of our organizations here, Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society, does that. They go actively looking for people who appear to be new so that they are not preyed upon by gangs, drug dealers or sexual predators, and then they link them into community and healthy resources.
I think the biggest challenge is around safe housing for indigenous girls and women coming into towns as well as a big city like Edmonton. We really need to be attentive to that. Edmonton does not have an indigenous women's shelter, but Calgary does.