Health committee  It's huge. I mean, we forget about childhood and the importance of play, right? Sometimes we pay a lot of attention to all of these things like risks and everything else, but part of being a kid is actually having the time to play, and play is important to children's development.

Health committee  I would say equality across the board in services.

Health committee  For the member's information, according to 2019 data, first nations children are 17.2 times more likely to be in child welfare care owing to poverty, poor housing and caregiver substance misuse related to multi-generational trauma from residential schools. The work Cowessess is d

Health committee  I don't have that information.

Health committee  Yes, that was a historical figure. The Auditor General has done some reviews of health care delivery in northern communities, etc. This is why we want the Spirit Bear plan. It's to cost out those inequalities and propose remedies for them.

Health committee  That's correct.

Health committee  No, they have not, and they have not proposed an alternative that would remedy those inequalities.

Health committee  I'm alive to the testimony yesterday of the large grocers and the impact that food insecurity has on Canadians. I've been to many northern communities where a small jar of peanut butter is $16, and that was before the inflation element. Being able to make choices about feeding

Health committee  It's not good. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission pointed to that recommendation as one of the top calls to action. For example, in child welfare, countries like the United States, which has 50 different U.S. states, have national child welfare data collection systems so th

Health committee  I think they're really essential. I think having more schools that promote midwifery services and making them available in different communities is really, really important. That includes all elements of prenatal care and making sure that it's available.

Health committee  I think the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami have really done a great job in documenting what that kind of intervention would look like. This is the good thing about these things: There are solutions on the books that just need to be mobilized and implemented. As you're pointing out, the

Health committee  I would just say that Jordan's principle is one of the top TRC calls to action. When we look at the survivors' work plan for the country, which are the TRC calls to action, the top six are all about addressing the inequalities for their grandchildren. They wanted their grandchild

Health committee  This is a very important topic. Imagine when you're having a baby. You want your family around you. That's the whole thing around the baby. It's a beautiful celebration of this new addition to the community. Traditionally, the birth of a child was not only very spiritual but a

Health committee  Unfortunately, first nations, Métis and Inuit kids are often at the top of every list you don't want to be at the top of and at the bottom of every list that you want to be at the top of. We're seeing everything from higher rates of death due to accidental injury to death as a r

Health committee  All right. I'll start with the second part. There's a great quote from 1955 in the U.S. Supreme Court on this question. It says that “there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals”. Really, substantive equality is recognizing the disadvantage that's been f