Justice committee  Yes. I want to concur with what my colleague said. From an indigenous perspective, indigenous people have been suppressed and oppressed by the state of Canada, so when we're dealing with prevention and promotion and just working with indigenous communities, we have a really har

Justice committee  We work with marginalized populations, those who are homeless and those who are working in the sex trade. I think just engaging with them under the auspices of criminalization makes it quite hard for us to engage with that population if they're already involved in the justice and

Justice committee  That's a very good question, and a very quick answer is that the Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy is working on looking at various testing simply because, within our communities, we are already stigmatized and discriminated against, and access to health care within the northe

Justice committee  Good morning. I'd first like to acknowledge the unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin people. My name is Duane Morrisseau-Beck, and I am the President of the Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy. I am an indigenous person living with HIV, commonly referred to as an