Thank you very much.
First, I want to say that Libby Davies sends her regrets that she can't be here this morning. She would have loved to have been. She tried really hard to organize her time so that she could, but as Mr. Savage said earlier, things are happening in Ottawa today and that has called a lot of us back who would have been listening to you. I have to tell you we're listening and we'll take back what we hear and we will work together to try to come up with a strategy or a national plan that will honour and respect your experience and your input.
The further down the chain you get, it gets very complicated. What I'm looking for is if there's something at the federal level that we could do that wouldn't take forever, that would be strategy, an initiative that would touch all the people you speak so eloquently about to lift them to a place where they can live in dignity. You mentioned a national aboriginal anti-poverty strategy, housing, education, and health care. Is there something specific we could take back and say if we do this, this will make a difference? Maybe since we heard from Elsie and Sherry just a few minutes ago, we'll give Patrick and Steve a chance to speak to this.