Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, thank you. Can you hear me?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay, good. We were having technical difficulties earlier. [Witness spoke in Ojibwe] [English] My spirit name is Love Eagle and I'm from the Caribou Clan. I acknowledge the treaty territory that I have the privilege of living and working on: Treaty 1 in the homeland of the Mét

Justice committee  Buying sex is not a sport.

Justice committee  Yes, that's a Manitoba campaign. It's actually a national one. It's been in multiple provinces to address the trafficking during large sporting events.

Justice committee  That is extremely important. There is a unique vulnerability for the LGBTQ population in regard to sex trafficking. Both our safe house and our rural healing lodge are for girls and transgender. This is an under-resourced, under-everything population, and there are limited organi

Justice committee  I can answer this in terms of the work the national task force did in an online survey back in 2012. We asked 500 women's organizations—not shelters, but women's organizations—how many sexually exploited and trafficked women they served within their NGOs, their non-profit organiz

Justice committee  Currently, in the current court system, there's no incentive for women to come forward. In fact, you end up as a victim. You're the one who ends up on trial. It takes two to five years for a conviction that maybe is one year or two years. The whole time you are re-victimized and

Justice committee  That definitely is a broader picture around all violence against women. Sex trafficking and human trafficking is an example of many examples of how our judicial system is not working to address violence against women. When you get into sexual assault and into other violence towar

Justice committee  Well, actually as an indigenous woman myself, we live it every day, in fact. The systems continue to perpetuate creating vulnerability for indigenous women and girls, and we have countless examples just in this year alone, of how systems have failed us and continue to fail us.

Justice committee  I think we're on a good path in looking at gender equality and that whole conversation in Canada, but the answers are within the indigenous communities themselves, and the leadership is there. Given the right kind of opportunity, the right kind of proper resource development, tho

Justice committee  [Technical difficulty ] to address the demand. When you take a look at changing any behaviour, like quitting smoking, drinking and driving, and all of those, why did those work? They worked because you had laws in place that criminalized the negative behaviour and you had public

Justice committee  It's a combination of a number of things. We have to remember that this is volume. There are hundreds of girls because there are hundreds of men who are driving the demand for the supply to happen. Manitoba is the most progressive province in the country when it comes to addres

Justice committee  Thank you. I'm going to do a quick time check so that I use my eight minutes wisely. I'm reading from notes that I sent in advance. I want to thank all of you for the opportunity to be here and for accommodating the video, as well as thank Joy Smith for helping me get on this i

Justice committee  Yes I am I'm at an elders gathering so I appreciate the accommodation to make this work. Thank you.

Human Resources committee  Yes. Of that 25,000, they're all indigenous people. You can be pretty much guaranteed that there's some level of trauma in all of them. The severity of it will depend on a whole bunch of factors. Of the 25,000 people who access our services, 80% are first nations individuals wh