Status of Women committee  I would like to see the police apply the PCEPA law across the country.

Status of Women committee  You can, Kathleen, since you've been doing work in this area.

Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  I think the police are way too resistant, and I would say the entire justice system is way too resistant to do any changing. I'm reflecting back on the sexual violence report that LEAF put together in looking at how difficult it is, and Robyn Doolittle did an exposé on police re

Status of Women committee  Okay. I know Pauktuutit received funding to develop transition houses, and I think that's pretty awesome. It's good news, but it's definitely not enough. There are large numbers of Inuit who are forced to come to the south. I think housing is a big issue, and cost of living is

Status of Women committee  There's an awful lot in the MMIWG report that we can take to address indigenous women's inequality so that we aren't so vulnerable. I think the root cause of a lot of the horrible things that happen to us is our utter vulnerability—the levels of poverty and homelessness, the addi

Status of Women committee  I'll use the example of Rose Harbour here in Campbell River. It's a shelter. In the shelter, there are 52% indigenous women and zero indigenous women on staff and on the board. I note that, for Inuit women, as well, in Montreal.... When we were doing solidarity work with them, th

Status of Women committee  I don't see the big difference between the two, between being prostituted according to the PCEPA law and being trafficked, because that's the starting point of being trafficked into the sex trafficking industry. Women do get stuck there. For indigenous women, we are really over

Status of Women committee  The equality model, the Nordic model, is a good starting point to address the inequality of women. From an indigenous perspective, it's all of the measures in the Indian Act that have ensured our marginalization. Our male leadership was very much complicit during the national in

Status of Women committee  No, I don't agree with her. I don't understand why she would say such a thing.

Status of Women committee  I am starting a sexual violence program here in Homalco First Nation. I'm primarily focused on women and girls, but I know that there is an utter lack of programs and services for men and boys. When men want to come forward and be forthright and honest about what they've been th

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I'm with the Aboriginal Women's Action Network. It is 26 years old, and it is a feminist group of indigenous women. Up until very recently, we were just a volunteer group with no office and were organizing out of our homes. In our commemoration project, we held a fiv

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have a long journey to go in terms of having some autonomy over the child welfare system. The rates of apprehension are right through the roof. We often talk about how there are more children in care now than there ever were in residential schools. It's caused huge damage in t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think Hilda is a part of—and so is Diane—the national action plan. They have a committee or a table that deals with data, and I'm really looking forward to the results of their work. The femicide observatory is involved in that process, and I'm really pleased to see that. They