Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here, and the National Chief.
We've lost three young people in Pikangikum this week, the youngest being 13. We've lost a lot of young people falling through the cracks. We had Health Canada at our committee, and I asked them about the denial rates of children needing mental health services. I asked them if they tracked how many times they deny children, and they said, of course they do. Then when we went and tried to find that data, they admitted that they don't track how many times they deny children or young people needing mental health services.
I raise that, Ms. Blackstock, because we have a government that's ignored two compliance orders and is refusing to turn over data to the tribunal. How can a government make a financial claim that it's responding to indigenous children in need, if they don't track the data or they're refusing to turn it over?