I really appreciate the discussion around kids and impacts on kids and youth and violence.
I want to ask a question specific to the child welfare system.
Cora Morgan, who is from the Manitoba First Nations Family Advocate Office, indicated in an article that was published by CBC in 2018 that, “We know that there's been a lot of women who've been missing or murdered in Winnipeg that were part of the child welfare system.”
The article points specifically to a 17-year-old young woman who was found in a field outside of Winnipeg after being kicked out of a group home, and two other women who also perished in 2009 and who also were part of the child welfare system.
I ask that because we talk about impacts of family violence on children, but then the very systems that are supposed to protect children are failing them, resulting in death. Often, many young women, as we know, age out of care into being sexually exploited.
In saying that, I'm wondering—and this is specifically for Ms. Dunn—if there's been research around prevention in the way of supporting families in non-violence by keeping them together instead of separating them as a way of protecting children and families from violence.