Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to both of the witnesses for being here today.
I will start by saying that Remembrance Day is a federal holiday. Federal employees get Remembrance Day off. One of the limitations of the federal government is that we can't regulate what provinces and territories do, even though we may want to. This PMB would extend the same holiday to federal employees and the agencies that the federal government regulates.
To both of the witnesses today—maybe I'll start with Ms. Brown—my great-grandmother, a full-blooded Cree woman, Lucy Brown Eyes, told me when I was five and she was 88, “We come from the land, Randy, and some day we'll go back to the land, and the land will be all shared in the future.”
Do you believe that truth-telling is the first step to healing?
Ms. Brown.