Status of Women committee  I've never really given it any thought, but the thing that really disturbs me at times is that it's okay to announce millions of dollars going to organizations or first nations people, but what happens is that by the time it gets to where it's supposed to go, half of that money is already spent.

Status of Women committee  I was just thinking of this on the way into Winnipeg this morning. We really need to empower our women. It's really important. I was talking to Chief Kennedy in the restaurant earlier. We were talking about how strong we have to be as a person, especially the female of the family, because you're the one always worrying about your family.

Status of Women committee  I have not seen any numbers to prove that it has decreased, but the awareness campaign that the AMC provides.... When I got involved with that committee over a year ago, I was really unaware of this whole issue. I had heard about it years ago, but I just didn't know. What we do as chiefs is we try to express the importance of this campaign at the assemblies.

Status of Women committee  This is not anybody else's feeling; this is my own feeling. There are two sides you have to look at when you think about matrimonial real property, especially in our community, and we deal with that. If we're in a situation where the male is from our community and the female is not a member...those types of things just don't jibe in our community where the wife can keep the home.

Status of Women committee  Yes, we have. We will access that--

Status of Women committee  In our community, we're allowed a counsellor twice a month. That's all our funding from FNIHB will provide.

Status of Women committee  Yes, but that's separate from this.

Status of Women committee  No. We don't go through the settlement agreement.

Status of Women committee  That's not how we.... We're not going into that type of counselling. The counselling we do for our people is for the families in the community, okay, and--

Status of Women committee  --but what I'm saying is that the counselling we currently have is for situations in our communities, for the young people, the young parents. Suicide is another thing. We were trying to use our suicide dollars, our family violence dollars, whatever dollars we could tap into. We were trying to use what we could.

Status of Women committee  Sure.

Status of Women committee  Okay.

Status of Women committee  Oh, yes, there is, but as I say, it's always the money. It's always the funding that you don't have. We're putting in money from our own source of revenue in order to cover that cost, but you have to do something to help your people. If you're not getting it from where you're supposed to be getting it, how do you deal with it?

Status of Women committee  When you have violence in your family, you need counselling. Counselling is a really important part of dealing with that family violence.

Status of Women committee  Can I speak to that, please?