The statistics are grim.
RCMP have identified more than eleven hundred missing or murdered indigenous women in this country.
Three more have been added to that list here in Winnipeg during the last two months.
A national inquiry will examine the issue, and search for solutions.
But it's hoped some of those answers will already have been found.
The second national roundtable on missing and murdered women is underway right now here in Winnipeg.
More than just ideas, participants say the success of this three-day event will be measured by the actions that follow.
"Things can happen immediately within the provincial government territories," said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde.
Those words were echoed by the Native Women's Association of Canada.
"We want to see the Provinces and the Federal Government coming forward tomorrow with action plans, and budgets to back up those action plans," said Dawn Lavell-Harvard.
The costs of implementing these plans aren't known.
But Chief Bellegarde says there are already high costs to maintaining the status quo.
The three-day conference wraps up Friday.
