Thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
Thanks to all three of you for appearing here today.
Dr. Nuyt, I won't have time to ask you questions, but I appreciate your recommendations. They echo those of some of our witnesses earlier in the study, as well as in our important workforce crisis study.
Ms. Blackstock, it's pleasure to meet you. I know that you've been in the Yukon many times. I appreciate that you have never been one to mince words and I appreciate your frankness in this room as well.
In the Yukon, just last month we celebrated the 50th anniversary of “Together Today for our Children Tomorrow”. That was the beginning of the modern treaty process, not just for Yukon but for the country. Over the next few decades, we came to realize self-governance in 11 out of the 14 first nations. I think the agreements on self-governance and the progress we've made so far in the Yukon in child health and well-being are not coincidental.
I want to pay a bit more attention to Jordan's principle. As an example of the many areas of progress since Jordan's principle—admittedly driven by the courts, but now we do have it—I was in Haines Junction just this past week at the Shäwthän Näzhi recovery support program, an amazing family support program for recovering adults to support those families in recovery. They said that this would not have been possible without Jordan's principle.
As we contemplate your recommendations on the Spirit Bear plan, do you see the ongoing Jordan's principle and the extension of it as a transition to something more comprehensive and enduring to continue to right the wrongs?