Thank you.
I so appreciate Treaty No. 1, of course, and the home of the Métis people, and I have had the privilege of being in that territory doing this kind of organizing.
What we haven't seen, and what you, I believe, have named, is that, historically, services have been based around the idea of the universal woman, which has prioritized women of privilege, particularly European women. If we understand that Canada is a settler colonial state, and that through European colonization there has been a stratification, which has positioned European women at the top and indigenous women at the bottom, and then other women layered throughout that stratification, this is really important for us to keep in mind when we're thinking about how we address violence and gender-based violence in communities that have been historically and contemporarily subjugated within that colonial framework, which is alive. This is a living history.
The buy-in for options, which is to resource communities of colour and indigenous communities and Black communities in order to take action, is a really useful approach. We know that indigenous people know how to respond to violence—