Mr. Speaker, this government has no lessons to learn from those opposition members.
Earlier this week, the government had a conversation with the president of NWAC and she was very happily in receipt of her Sisters in Spirit money. Our department continues to invest approximately $17 million per year into the family violence prevention program, which provides funding for community based projects aimed at addressing health and social problems relating to family violence.
The family violence prevention program funds operational funding to 35 shelters for women and children living on reserves. We have--