Thank you. To answer your question, Mr. Gargan, it was a balancing act in terms of trying to visit communities in each of the regions and trying to visit communities of different sizes. I would disagree with you that all of the communities visited were large communities. Broughton Island and Fort McPherson are not large communities. We attempted to strike a balance in undertaking this report. The financial responsibility and the time available to complete the report necessitated that we make a choice about the communities which we visited. While, in some of the small communities, women may not have a fear of walking down the street in terms of the violence that they may have in a larger urban centre, I will strongly point out to you that women have fear in their homes. That prevails whether they live in Wrigley, Lac La Martre, Broughton Island, Pond Inlet or any other community in this territory.
While violence does not always occur on the streets within smaller communities it definitely occurs within the home. That violence is even more troublesome because it occurs in positions of trust and in situations where women have very little power and little option of leaving an abusive situation and making a better life for themselves and their families. In small communities people who are suffering from abusive behaviour have very few options available to them to correct or rehabilitate that behaviour. All of those needs, particularly in small communities where people are isolated and have little in the way of other support mechanisms, must be seriously addressed. It costs money.