Absolutely, 1,000% I agree with you because it's the trauma that's been affected. When you see people who have been taken away from your arms, and you have the RCMP back in the day supporting this and saying, “If you don't give us your children, we're going to send you to jail.” There is no accountability. That's exactly what I'm talking about.
I only have six minutes to address this. It's a lot to say, but that leads to all this destruction. We talk about gang violence. Why are people in those situations? We talk about all these severe crimes. It's because of the impacts of residential schools. It has destroyed families. It's a really bad situation and now, as leaders, as communities, we're creating partnerships and relationships to deal with the trauma from all of these systemic racist situations. I say we have to change the systems in order to negate trauma and get treatment for people. We lack treatment facilities. If somebody is getting caught with drugs, why are we sending them to prison to be recruited? Why can't we send them to a treatment facility to deal with the underlying issues?
Nobody is addressing that. Maybe that person has ADHD or FASD. Those things have never been addressed. This is what I'm working on to actually address those situations, because we need to heal people. We don't wake up every day as indigenous people and say we're going to go kill somebody. That's not our thing. There are situations that happen to our people. They see violence every day. They see their mothers, their fathers; they see all of that domestic violence. The system has to change and we need this type of MMPs to be addressed.