Status of Women committee  The bottom line is yes. Those conversations are going on. The minister mentioned the national indigenous provincial, federal and territorial round table that happened at the beginning of February. The whole first day was dedicated to technical discussions around the red dress alert.

Status of Women committee  Chair, I'll use another example. In Washington state, an important element of the way they work is with an indigenous liaison person, who can work with the families of the person who has gone missing and play that important role of trust with local law enforcement. There are a number of different ways to do that, and part of what we need to do now is land on the best way with partners in terms of what their needs are and what would result in trust in the system.

Status of Women committee  Chair, the only thing I would add is that we need the time to get this right, while understanding that there's an urgency to do so. From a technical perspective the reason why we want to do this on a regional basis first, and then broader, is to make sure that we can get the local considerations right, as we've heard different things across the country.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Chair, for the question. When we talk about codevelopment, there are some things we want to think about. Some are things we already talked about through the engagement sessions but at a very high level. We really need to get into some further detail around defining criteria and what that actually means.