Thank you very much for the question, Ms. Larouche.
If I may, I would like to respond to a couple of things.
The first, as we know, and as Minister Miller has said, is that violence against and the disappearance and murder of indigenous women, girls and 2-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual people—2SLGBTQIA+ people—in Canada is an ongoing national tragedy, but I want to point to a couple of things here.
In our department, since 2015, 31% of all WAGE funding has been specifically for indigenous people. In budget 2021, $55 million was provided to bolster the capacity of indigenous women and 2SLGBTQIA+ organizations to provide gender-based violence prevention and real programming to try to prevent this kind of violence. In January 2022, just a couple of months ago—six months, to be exact—WAGE launched a call for proposals and those applications are currently being assessed.
These are ways in which we are working with the organizations and people on the ground who serve indigenous communities, working together, as we should and as Minister Miller pointed out, to come to solutions.