Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Peterson, I have looked at the list of visits. You have gone into the communities from Hay River all the way to Fort Smith, Inuvik, Fort McPherson, Arviat, Rankin Inlet, Iqaluit, Broughton Island, Coppermine, Cambridge Bay, Fort Good Hope, Fort Franklin, Rae-Edzo and Yellowknife. Those are the large communities that you would see having those problems.
As aboriginal people, we have never addressed the issue of gender. We have always addressed it as a nation of people. Now, we are seeing even aboriginal women caught up in this gender war. It is not happening in the communities smaller than 1,000 people, for example. We do not see women walking the streets in fear at night. Nor do I see it for men. Perhaps, in Yellowknife, both women and men should be concerned about walking the streets in the evenings. I wanted to bring that out because you have about six people on your staff who helped you do the report. It is a very good report. The women who did this report also must have had a good education.
In your recommendations, one of the issues is plain language in the judicial system. I find a lot of the stuff in here very hard to read. I do not know what you mean by the definition "sexless." The report was done by a very bright group of people. If you put this into the communities it would be very difficult for the people in the communities to understand. Is it because of time that you have not gone to many of the traditional communities? When I refer to traditional communities, I mean those such as Fort Wrigley, Fort Liard and Fort Providence. They are not too caught up in your Canadian mentality, perhaps. This is not reflected in this report.