Absolutely. It's well-documented that indigenous people experience poverty disproportionately in communities. We support basic income, but we also want to ensure that as part of that legislation, services will not be impacted. We know that economic self-sufficiency and having economic resources and housing options provide a protective factor and creates an alternative to remaining in an abusive home. It also creates an environment where women have the resources that they need to improve their lives, to access education, to access training and to become more economically self-sufficient.
We are doing a lot of work in this area right now in a program called urban indigenous homeward bound. That program shows that when you provide indigenous women with things like housing, income supports and culture and healing supports, they're far more likely to succeed, and they are succeeding.