Yes, please.
Thank you.
I want to say that housing is definitely a factor for Inuit women when it comes to those who are underhoused. There is a lot of overcrowding in Inuit Nunangat.
I want to refer back to the community setting. When I say “culture-based for Inuit”, it's not just Inuit, but here in the north. Today, for instance, here in Yellowknife, the Snowking has opened his snow castle; if you can hear it, those are Dene drummers. This is a free, community-based event that's taking place here. The reason I wanted to show that to you is that anything that involves the community is going to be healthy for the community. It needs to involve the men, the children, the elders and the community as a whole, and it can be something as simple as a drum dance. It can be something as simple as sewing. It doesn't need to be huge, although we need something huge to solve the problem overall.
Right now, one of the other barriers in place is the fact that we do not have any treatment centres in the north. When a woman needs to report an instance of intimate partner violence, she needs to consider if she's going to leave the home or have the individual removed from her home. If she needs to leave the home, she's going to be leaving her community.
It's not just a case of “Where do I go for the night?” It's more, “Do I want to leave the community, not just to go to Yellowknife or to go next door to my sister's house?” It's a community problem. It's not just a house problem; it's a whole community problem, so it takes a community to solve it.