Following up on that, we know through the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls that the child welfare system is a direct line, a “pipeline”, into becoming murdered or missing. I see that in the community I represent in Winnipeg Centre, when we had the tragedy that started the whole national inquiry. Young Tina Fontaine was murdered in our community.
How is a failure of governments to deal with things like amending the Indian Act, as they're doing right now with Bill C-38, incrementally, to ensure that indigenous women have the same rights as other women in the country, and not including us in EI regimes...? I say “us”, because the care is done primarily by indigenous women. It impacts indigenous women. How does this place us at greater risk for things like gender-based violence, difficulties with obtaining employment, difficulty with obtaining housing and so forth?