Status of Women committee  Okay. I have one other question. You mentioned the opportunity to have an escort come with them when they deliver, which I think is wonderful. Would there be a priority, first of all, for the father to be that escort, in light of trying to encourage family cohesion? There's not

Status of Women committee  Okay. Is the maternal and child health program you were speaking of specifically a first nations program?

Status of Women committee  Okay. Can you give me a little more detail on what the priorities of that program are?

Status of Women committee  Is that right in their communities?

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Chair. I have a question with regard to the indigenous issues around sterilization globally. UNDRIP talks specifically about indigenous rights to freedoms, not forceably moving children, all of these things. Have you worked with Global Affairs and the Department of

Status of Women committee  I would really encourage that, because it seems like we are doing one thing here and another over there.

Status of Women committee  Also, you were talking about health services barriers to our first nations communities. The goal I'm hearing is to give them freedom and autonomy in taking care of their own community's health care delivery. Is that the goal?

Status of Women committee  Okay. With that autonomy, then, they have the opportunity to determine what that should look like.

Status of Women committee  I actually have a first nation community that has met with me and with the community they live beside, which was building and adding on a hospital. They wanted to contribute to that facility, because they use it extensively, but they weren't allowed to because the funding they re

Status of Women committee  Is that flexibility there as long as they do it only on their own land? Like, I—

Status of Women committee  So even if that first nation community says that this is what they want to do.... I can't think of a better way to build reconciliation than to be working and living together. If they find that it is the best way they want to have those services provided, that wouldn't be an opti