Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I can't tell you a whole lot, in the sense that it would be an RCMP responsibility. It does pick up a little on the different lenses the committee might want to consider, in terms of how you look at the issues. It isn't just about the family violence initiative. It is about how

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Well, I think about some of the things that Francie and I have been doing, just talking about social innovation, just looking at the different kinds of models and things that we could work on together to address our shared interest in communities. Prevention is a perfect example.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Certainly within the context of crime prevention, we can provide the committee with data on the distribution of our resources that would apply to aboriginal people, both on reserve and off reserve. Part of the challenge there, of course, is that when they move into communities, w

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Sure.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  No, I can't.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  The thing I'd want to point out, in terms of how you perceive the first nations policing program, is that it is a program that's designed to augment the provincial investment in policing. Policing is a provincial responsibility. The law is very clear on that. The courts have rule

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I'll just give you a quick start. Within the Public Safety portfolio, I think we are starting to really pull together. One of the things I've been able to do, because I have the authority over the various silos within my department, is ensuring that as we look at the investments

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Exactly.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Aboriginal?

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Where they know that information, it's input into the database, but there will be gaps in that data.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  No.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  At the broadest level, in terms of framing the generics of the program, no, but indeed, particularly through crime prevention, all our work is done on the ground in communities.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  It's important I think to appreciate that we fund a myriad of different kinds of projects and programs out of NCPC, and each of those is individually designed to fit the needs of the community. So we are taking internationally proven best practices that have been proven within Ca

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  That gets back to the word you heard earlier. It's about capacity within the community. Oftentimes when we get that pushback it's because the communities just aren't prepared and they don't have the capacity to deal with the issues. I spent 10 years working with the survivors o

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I guess part of my advice is that I think the committee wants to pay attention to the amount of work that's already going on, as we look at the economics of policing and at the work that's going on around victims and our efforts to find ways that we can better support victims wit