This is for Mr. Thompson. If we have universally accessible child care for first nations children, especially for special needs kids; available in northern and remote communities; culturally sensitive, developed by the first nations communities themselves; with adequate funding that is sustained and from one source, rather than five, six, ten different project bases, with no core funding; holistic, with funding for building infrastructure; coordinated, so that it is a wraparound service with parents involved sometimes, and other times, if they work, they may not be.... Having that kind of vision, if we could do it, would it make a dent on the number of kids, the 27,000 first nations children who are now in care or being taken because of any number of reasons? Would that really help?
