Public Safety committee  I agree. I think the other point is that we need to be more inclusive around understanding mental health, and the fight-or-flight that comes from mental health challenges, especially people affected by trauma.

Public Safety committee  That's okay.

Public Safety committee  Well, I think there are a couple of things. In Alberta, I've seen some real change where municipalities, first nations and Métis settlements have engaged in some real conversations about community safety and rural crime, and partnering on some service delivery issues around menta

Public Safety committee  Thank you. The last piece of my talk was around consequences. We've acknowledged, in a number of cases where our organization has been directly involved with the RCMP in managing and dealing with complaints over the many years, that where consequences occurred, we saw a change i

Public Safety committee  Right now, in reviewing what exists, there needs to be some changes. There is a lot of new research and new programs that are available for professionals in addressing mental health, especially around the intervention field. I think there needs to be a review of the training that

Public Safety committee  Thank you to the committee for the invite. I'd also like to thank and acknowledge the clerk and his office for all the work going into setting this up. I appreciate it. I am a member of the Beaver Lake First Nation in Treaty 6 territory, and I want to acknowledge that I'm on tha

Public Safety committee  Right.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely, and so do my colleagues. We have had extensive consultation with indigenous academics across Canada around these issues and this language. We think addressing that question of world view allows for that expertise, that knowledge, the culture and the spirituality to be

Public Safety committee  We talk about programs that are culturally relevant, grounded in indigenous evidence-based research and with an indigenous world view.

Public Safety committee  Not yet, although recently in Alberta, in the new child welfare legislation, they've adopted that language.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  First, I will share this as well with you. Our agreement allows for the full authority of a warden to operate a facility, basically, but the legislation doesn't back that up and provide for it. In essence, we're operating in an agreement with the minister. This new legislation do

Public Safety committee  I'll supply that. Do you want me to read it again?

Public Safety committee  All right.

Public Safety committee  There are two things. One, as it stands now, a governing body is referred to only as first nations elected officials, Inuit or Métis, and in many cases we have indigenous organizations that are representative of those communities. That's part of it. Two, we need to eliminate the