Finance committee  I happen to have an example. We have had to apply for charitable status, and there seems to be an undue delay and a complication there for some reason, so this could be causing some problems to other organizations as well. Nevertheless, I do have to say that the private sector

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Thank you. That's a great question. We have indeed had the opportunity to look at the bill a little bit. The main thing for us is everything that needs to be done in connection with missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, or MMIWG. There really needs to be an investment

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  There are, indeed, some examples of programming right now. There are many communities talking about healing centres. These are really needed very badly. We at the Native Women's Association of Canada started one of our own. We had to do it with the Bank of Montreal. We had to do

Finance committee  That's very kind. Thank you very much for this opportunity. I will continue. I have been given an opportunity to continue with a few points that I wanted to make. There was one on food security. Food security has been an ongoing and serious problem in indigenous communities,

Finance committee  I did mention the five areas, and I'm going to repeat them with an emphasis on the final point. It deals with the situation of over-incarceration. We would like to see an investment in the system to end the overrepresentation of indigenous women in federal prisons, who now make u

Finance committee  Thank you, meegwetch, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for inviting me to speak to you today. I’d like to point out that we are gathered on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people, who have lived on this land since time immemorial. My name is