Health committee  You can't just go out and say “report it.” The Saskatoon Health Region has a great in-ward reporting system for anything that goes wrong. The problem is that these women aren't even in a position to feel safe enough to do that.

Health committee  I couldn't tell you.

Health committee  No, I don't think so. I think a lot more research has to be done. I think something has to be done to make sure this doesn't happen. In terms of how all the women will come forward and deal with this, even the women who came to us said that when they left, they felt so much bett

Health committee  I think they can reach out, but reaching out has to be done differently. A whole process has to be undertaken in order to reach out. I don't think women will come forward to the RCMP. There's no safety there for them. I don't think they will. I'm not sure I can answer your questi

Health committee  Even from our study, it's difficult. We have assured them that this is confidential, so, in fact, their names are destroyed.

Health committee  I know who they are, but I can't—

Health committee  I've interviewed them, but I don't have their names anymore.

Health committee  We found them. They found us through our posters and our reaching out. We had to reach out through the appropriate channels and take the appropriate process.

Health committee  I would call that being coerced. That woman is in no condition emotionally to make that kind of decision. In fact, that happens—you're correct—more often than it should happen. Any time you're being asked to make a decision when you're not in a state of mind to weigh out the pros

Health committee  Okay. We thought they needed an advisory council to help the women who experienced this go through whatever process they selected to go through in order to go through a healing process. We expected that they needed to partner with expert groups—indigenous nursing, indigenous phy

Health committee  Thank you for the invitation. I have lots of red marks on my paper because I realize I'm going to have to cut it down a lot. I am going to talk about the Saskatoon Health Region lived experience of aboriginal women feeling coerced into tubal ligation. I and Dr. Yvonne Boyer were