Thank you very much, Member.
The issue of poverty has been well documented in child welfare research as a leading driver of all children into child welfare. It is one of the best predictors. Although there are families such as yours that were successful, good public policy is not when success is the exception. Good public policy is when success is the rule. When you have a cultural group, first nations people, that is consistently overrepresented not only in child welfare but also in the factors that we know from research drive children into care, like poverty, then we need to create conditions for their success.
One of the important pieces is giving them at least an equitable opportunity to succeed, as people with higher incomes, who are typically the non-aboriginal Canadians. There is no evidence that I know of where if you take a population that's disadvantaged and provide them inequitable services, you actually get better outcomes for children.