Status of Women committee  That's a tough question because it is going to be really difficult to do that. Do you know what? I don't think I even have an answer for that, to be quite honest. It's something that is just going to be really difficult to do, from my perspective. It's going to take some time. It's going to take some trust.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Yes, she was a champion.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, and that's the only way it's going to work.

Status of Women committee  I'll try to answer this quickly. There are three questions in there. The first one I'll answer is the prevention. I think we have to look at what happens when a young girl, for example, leaves the community. She goes into a city. She has nowhere to go. There has to be that preventative...a safe place for them to go to educate them on what's out there, especially if they're young, coming in for going to school.

Status of Women committee  From my perspective, I see it coming from a national perspective. They would be the main, but I think that, if we're going to do all the provinces and it's going to be national, you're going to have subs. You're going to have offices in every province and the national body as the main: That's the one person.

Status of Women committee  I envision its being 24-7, obviously. I think the administration of whatever platform we use has to ensure that it's getting out there, similar to the Amber alert. That's really important. The command centre, as I said before, has to be run by indigenous people. It has to be 24-7, and it also has to have guidelines and be there for the family to report that.

Status of Women committee  It has to be national right across the board. Every single province has to be on board with it; otherwise, it's not going to work.

Status of Women committee  It should be the administrator who determines that.

Status of Women committee  That's who I think it should be.

Status of Women committee  It can.

Status of Women committee  Yes, I do believe it can cause harm to some degree, yes, absolutely.

Status of Women committee  I think the biggest issue is awareness. A lot of the general public doesn't even know what's happening to indigenous people, let alone what's happening to our indigenous women. It's going to take a lot of education to raise awareness that this is happening. One of your colleagues mentioned stats.

Status of Women committee  Yes, that is what I said.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, I think you could. Keep in mind, though, that you need to have indigenous people administering it that rather than just the policing. I think it's really important that our indigenous women or men—it doesn't matter—administer it. The employees or whoever is administering it needs to be indigenous.