Status of Women committee  I heard you asking, “What can I do as a white, privileged male?” Go to some of the shelters. Come down and visit my shelter. See what it looks like. Then step into a shelter on a reserve: find the difference, see the difference, see the buildings, see the conditions they're in.

Status of Women committee  I'd like to speak in part to that. We have attempted many times to get into the educational system to be able to talk to the teachers and the principals about these situations, about poverty and what this may look like. Just because you're at poverty level it doesn't mean you're

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for asking me to be here; I'm very honoured. I hope I can give you some good recommendations. As you know, I'm the executive director of a 24-bed crisis home. With the women who come through the shelter, what we see is generational violence. What we see are v