Thank you for your question.
I'll respond in English.
There are so many. I wouldn't even know where to start, but off the top of my head, I agree that there has to be a study specifically for indigenous women, girls and two-spirit folks. What happens a lot in these big studies is that we get left behind. If we're not addressing the needs of those who are at risk and most vulnerable, then we're not going to ever meet the mandate.
Something we experience as a grassroots youth group is that we have such a hard time accessing funds. The large organizations take the funds first because they have paid writers to apply for these things. The people reading them love what they're reading, but they don't also have connection to community. It's just this cycle that continues on, while there are people on the ground doing this work.
Another thing we observe in the creation of programs is that lack of connection to community and of an understanding of what's really happening on the ground.
In the last couple of months, I've been asked to attend several of these committees, but it's the first time in all of the years I've been working on these that I've actually been asked to come to these tables. The harder part, too, is that I can come here, but I don't have a full-time job to be here, whereas most of the folks who have presented all have full-time jobs or salaries and benefits to be in these positions talking about these issues. We can create the table for indigenous women to sit at, but the equity just isn't there. The restitution isn't there.
There has to be—