Thank you, Michelle.
This has been another moving hour and a half. I always find these committees kind of heart-wrenching. You hear all these different stories. I'll be quite honest. This is not something that I was raised around. I didn't talk a lot about it at school. It wasn't talked about a lot in my home as a young adult.
How do we engage and encourage and educate more people who are not hearing about this every day? I have the beauty and the ability to be on this committee today, but I don't think enough people are talking about this. We're starting, we're talking, and I applaud each and every one of you for all your efforts, because communication is healthy and being here today is huge. I know that so many of you are doing so much on the ground.
Very seldom is there a carte blanche approach to anything. There are a lot of different intricacies.
I'll pose my first question to Ms. Palmater.
In what ways are there different, distinct groups of indigenous women and girls, and how do they have different needs from one another? I don't anticipate that it's one carte blanche need.