Status of Women committee  I think if we were to be accountable to ourselves and to the work we do, creating a national action plan and having the resources to implement that plan would be the accountable measure we could have. It's about having political champions like yourselves at all levels of governme

Status of Women committee  I haven't read the latest draft, I'm sorry.

Status of Women committee  I'm embarrassed that I haven't. I'm sorry. I can't give you an honest answer.

Status of Women committee  I don't know if there's any jump-off point in the sense that at a certain point you give up. But I know from work I've done previously and from different projects, when we start looking at the health and well-being of the children and we work with the young families and the young

Status of Women committee  As I said, I was the vice-president of probably one of the largest tribal councils in British Columbia. Under that we had USMA, which is a child welfare agency as well. So the role I played was monstrous, in the sense that I had to look after a lot of things. Systemically, as we

Status of Women committee  Well, I was going to say that the system responds in a very dysfunctional way, because the people are removed from the system yet are called out to the system. Right? So that's a huge barrier when you're removing people.

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Michelle Corfield, and I am from the Uchucklesaht First Nation, which is part of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council. In my former life I was a politician who represented 14 first nations. In that life I witnessed the murder of two young te