Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  First of all, we're not collecting or doing any type of research, so we're not generating new statistics with the Evidence to Action project. A lot of the statistics that we have generated are from the Sisters in Spirit project. There is an increased need to continue doing that t

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Essentially the ETA project provides moving the research component that was derived from the Sisters in Spirit project into action, hence the title of the project, Evidence to Action. All of our work and materials is to get those particular research pieces out to various segments

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  We've burned our materials on to CDs. When we couldn't afford CDs, we moved to USBs. So the demand—

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  When you begin a project, you try to think of all the variables that might come through. What we didn't anticipate, which we talked about earlier today, was that the amount of demand would increase as the awareness increased. If there's a positiveness that has taken place, it's t

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  One of the big pieces that came out is the community resource guide. Within this resource guide is a number of tool kits. I think there are 10 tool kits in it. There is a number of mechanisms in there. There's also a particular piece that addresses the root causes. Most certain

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Yes.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  There was a lot of good work. Of course, we have a number of reports that were generated from the Sisters In Spirit project. A lot of analysis was done. We were able to break down the various differences with respect to the provinces. Some western provinces, for example, have a h

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Certainly, a lot of work has already been done around what should go into a national action plan. The UN has implemented a call that all nation states should have a national action plan to address violence in their various countries by 2015. Doing work in this regard is moving th

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  It is at this moment.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I'm just showing that it has a short-term, medium-term, and a long-term look at this. Again, this is only a snapshot of this particular issue. We have done a lot of work in the areas of missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls. If we addressed all of this, can you imag

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Hello, everyone. I'm Irene Goodwin. I'm Ojibway from northwestern Ontario. I've been in Ottawa for about seven years now and have had the opportunity to work with NWAC for about five of those years. It's been quite a privilege, and a learning experience as well. I'm quite honou