Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Madam Minister, I would like to thank you because I had informed you about a problem in one of or Attikamek communities. Yesterday, we met people from your office, as well as from the Agency, and it looks like we're headed towards a settlement.
This situation revealed a rather worrisome state of affairs, meaning that in a community like Manowan, where people are illiterate—they speak French, but cannot read it—they are sent forms, but are unable to understand what is being asked of them, particularly as the documents they are asked to provide are not the sorts of things to which they have access. For example, they are asked for mortgage contracts, even though they do not own their houses, or even rent them. It is the band council that...
So I was wondering, perhaps along the same lines as Mr. Pacetti's question, about how the Agency could do something to take these realities into account. As it happens, 30 families had their food supplies cut off and they reacted when their cheques did not arrive. Would it not be a good idea to work more closely with the band councils? This question led me to wonder about the methods we use to deal with these people, who are first class citizens. I think that you agree with me on that.