Status of Women committee  I'll comment on the policing issue first. I think the multicultural training would be very helpful for the police. There has been training for them. Some of them may have taken this training. Other than that, I'm not aware of any other training. With the court system, we need f

Status of Women committee  I will speak from personal experience because I was the victim of violence in a relationship years ago, but that's not there anymore. At that time, I was young. I didn't know anything about violence. It was acceptable in the community. As I got older, I got out of the relationshi

Status of Women committee  Whenever there's an question about this, we question the police on that, and they usually say they go by the priorities of the calls. For instance, there was a point there...[Technical Difficulty--Editor]. We said, okay, we need a detachment in our community. We have a detachment

Status of Women committee  I would think that it's more funding to educate the women and children against violence. I would like more funding for educating the family and to get the prevention programs, addiction treatment programs, on the go, and to treat the family as a whole, rather than just women and

Status of Women committee  I guess I'll go first, but this is the first call in which I will have a chance to get involved in this initiative, and I have no background whatsoever on it. That being said, I do have a lot of issues about violence in the Sheshatshiu Innu community and aboriginal women in parti

Status of Women committee  The community population is about 1,800 and the majority are minors. I guess there's a lot of violence in regard to the women's issues. A lot of women face violence, physical and emotional, from their partners in the community. They sometimes have a hard time going through the co

Status of Women committee  I think that the system has failed aboriginal women in getting the help they need, and not just through the court system. CYFS should be able to help by providing prevention programs, which they don't do. The police force never get there when they're supposed to, when they get ca

Status of Women committee  I would prefer that Carmen go first.