Status of Women committee  The first thing I can think of is making mental health care a part of our health care system. Right now, if you want counselling, you go through your work EAP, or you go to a free agency, like Klinic, or you pay out of pocket. If you are looking at EAP, those sessions are very l

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Calls to action 21 through 24 refer to training in the medical system and making sure there are indigenous folks represented as medical practitioners. Call to action 41 speaks to missing and murdered indigenous women, the investigation into that and the prevention of

Status of Women committee  It's probably payroll, as Alisa talked about earlier. Our wait-lists are hugely long, and we just don't have enough counsellors to take everybody on in a timely manner. Unfortunately, the pandemic has only made this worse. I know that in my program, the sexual assault crisis prog

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much for that question. Calls to action 21 through 24 are around our medical system and training around that. Call to action 41 is the one that directly addresses missing and murdered indigenous women, and the investigations around that. That is extremely important

Status of Women committee  Thank you for asking that. I think this is related to a lot of barriers people up north face, which is that the Internet is not a public utility like water or electricity. We are in an age of information. I think that being able to access the Internet is a human right, or it sho

Status of Women committee  Absolutely I think so. As I said earlier, money is how we talk about what's important to us as a society, and money is often the key out of situations in which women and girls find themselves in danger. If everybody had the option of moving out and away from people who are danger

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much for that question. I think one thing that sometimes is not well understood is the systemic nature of gendered and sexualized violence. It's not simply interpersonal acts of physical violence. It's also the water that we swim in every day. It's the way in which

Status of Women committee  Thanks so much for that question. I think one of the things that many survivors struggle with when they come forward is the stigma of having experienced sexualized violence. Our program attends hospitals, but, of course, we have to be asked to come. There is a fairly good follow

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon, honourable members and fellow witnesses. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. My name is Karla Andrich and my pronouns are she/her. I am joining you today from the Treaty One territory, which is the traditional territory of the Anishinabe, Nêhiyawak, O