When it comes to the economic impact, when we look at the rate of high school graduates in northern communities.... We're talking about on-reserve high schools for first nations and also about Inuit communities, which are really not brought to this table often, that conversation of northern communities.... The high school rate of graduation is quite low. When Nicole was speaking with the MP who really started this fire of Moon Time Sisters, it was because students were missing school.
If we look to supplying communities in different regions, to high schools, but not only high schools—we are talking also about other programs related in the community—you're going to have a higher rate of graduation from female and non-binary two-spirit students. You're going to have more women and two-spirits going to work. Our stats are saying there is quite a high number of women and two-spirit people who are missing work because they do not have access to menstrual products. When we talk about the economic impact, if you're going to allow the entire community to work as a whole, we really do need to be supplying this one barrier that is a very significant barrier but a very simple fix in terms of just supplying product.
When we're talking about jurisdiction, municipalities know what the concerns are in their jurisdictions. They're working with shelters. They're funding their shelters. If we're looking at who is going to be responsible for funding, it really does need to be multidisciplinary here. At the end of the day, every region knows their region very well. They have frontline workers in there. Their social services know exactly what shelters, the numbers who are attending, who is going to need that product. That's a pretty big piece to keep in mind, but when we're looking at first nation and Inuit communities, we do need to be working with the territorial governments as well and with their programs.