Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  It's certainly something I've heard the women I have spoken to talk about. They talk about being placed in foster care, or having someone in their family incarcerated and how it's impacted them, and the self-fulfilling prophecy, “I said when I was younger it wasn't going to happe

Status of Women committee  Yes. I've been doing some research with indigenous women in general, not just indigenous women who've been incarcerated, looking at what healing means to them. It always goes back to intergenerational relationships—my son, my daughter, but also my grandmother, my mother. When t

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, can you clarify what you mean by many generations as opposed to linear?

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely. To incorporate that line of thinking, it's not just the nuclear family but the larger collective, and I certainly don't know and am not the person to ask about the tangibles of what that would include. I think that because the trauma has been intergenerational, t

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Do you mean the program, for lack of a better word, in Toronto?

Status of Women committee  Yes, I think it's a good start. The problem is that we're just beginning. We're just at the cusp of—the birth of—trying to understand colonization and where we go from here. We've come to the point of this pan-indigenous approach. How do we pinpoint it? If we need to start with t

Status of Women committee  I certainly think that partnerships and collaboration with local community is important. That could get around some of the.... I think that with the big prison, the big numbers, working together doesn't work. It's the smaller, personalized services that would work, and these comm

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon. Thank you, members of the committee, for this opportunity and for conducting this very important study. My recommendations are grounded in two main points: the fragility of indigenous programs and services provided in women's corrections and the need for support