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Public Safety committee  I believe that recommendation speaks to police understanding gender-based violence and the impact it has on Inuit women. A lot of our suggestions around this include having a family violence liaison officer in each of the communities, given the disproportionately high rates of violence that Inuit women experience, as well as having a female officer present and leading questioning.

November 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Samantha Michaels

Public Safety committee  Yes. Again, I think it comes back to the fact that there hasn't been that thorough consultation or opportunity to do that. I think that's the next step, stemming from our report. Our report clearly points to a number of ways that policing is not effective, or even equitably funded.

November 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Samantha Michaels

Public Safety committee  Again, there are four regions in Inuit Nunangat. Of course, Nunavut, Inuvialuit, and Nunatsiavut are all policed by RCMP, and then there's Nunavik, which is policed by the Kativik Regional Police Force, which makes this a sort of unique situation in spanning such a large land mass.

November 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Samantha Michaels

Public Safety committee  Thank you so much for that, Vice-President Sharpe. I would also say that one very tangible recommendation is that more funding must be made available immediately to address the lack of formalized and local dispatch services. We're talking about how if someone's calling from one of the five communities in Nunatsiavut after hours, that call is being sent to dispatch in St.

November 16th, 2020Committee meeting

Samantha Michaels