Status of Women committee  It's crucial.

Status of Women committee  I apologize; my connection was unstable. I believe that, when I left, you asked me for my recommendation. It was yes.

Status of Women committee  On the guaranteed livable income, we look especially at Métis women having lower educational attainment and less of an ability to be able to earn a livable income while they're caring for their children. That includes multi-generational caregivers.

Status of Women committee  I think it's an important step. We have to rebuild that trust with the system, especially policing. I think there has to be a shift from the view of policing being a punitive body, because that is the perspective of indigenous women. When police are involved, there's punishment involved rather than policing being a system that's there to support us and to bring us to safety.

Status of Women committee  Part of that coercive control and behaviour is financial control that's held over our women and gender-diverse folks. A guaranteed livable income would help to put women and gender-diverse persons on a good foot in starting out a life independent and free from violence. We have to look at, in addition to the guaranteed livable income, those health supports that are required to make sure that they're in place, because all of those can be barriers.

Status of Women committee  Undoing what's happened over 200 years is not going to happen overnight. The systemic oppression that we've experienced isn't going to go away with the criminalization of behaviour. Our recommendations would be around awareness, both for persons who may be experiencing coercive behaviour and also in terms of education within the systems, within the authorities, within policing, within justice, within health care.

Status of Women committee  I do think that historical trauma and that relationship with policing will be impacted by criminalization. There's already an existing fear that women and gender diverse folks have, so when police intervene in probably one of the most difficult scenarios in a woman's or a gender-diverse person's experience, they will be leery of disclosing everything.

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon. My name is Lisa Pigeau. I'm the director of intergovernmental relations with Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak. I'd like to acknowledge that I'm joining you today from Spencerville, and that I humbly reside on the traditional territories of the Anishinabe, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Oneida peoples.