Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'd like to first thank all of the witnesses who are here with us today to inform us and to help us come up with some solutions to some of the issues that are facing indigenous women and girls due to resource extraction.
Most of my questions at this point have been answered, but I'm going to go to a higher level.
Ms. Smith, you were speaking a little earlier about what potential solutions could look like and how to get more people involved in implementing sustainable and lasting change so that women and girls are less impacted in a negative way and benefit more from resource extraction.
The conversation you were having with my colleagues earlier was making me think also of what potential solutions could be and I'm curious to see that, because there are issues at several levels. Whether it's in government, in policing or in the communities themselves, or whether it's in the companies that are doing the extraction of resources, getting more women involved at all of these levels I think would be key and important, because in order to change, I think what's needed here is a cultural change at every single level.
Can you comment a bit further on that?