Thank you, Madam Chair.
Madam Blackstock, Mr. Saulis, let me tell you how much I appreciated your presentations, for all sorts of reasons. One of the reasons is that you didn't come and say, “These are the problems.” You came and said, “These are the solutions.” I think the time for looking at the problems, if I can put it this way, is really over. We know what the problems are; it's up to us as legislators, on both sides of the table, to look at how we're going to follow through with some of the suggestions and recommendations you have made in this matter.
I'm entirely in agreement with you when you talk about cultural suicide. I've worked with various first nations groups, particularly in Quebec, and I know what happens to them when kids are taken out of their own home environment into a totally different culture and language. So I'm very happy that you spoke up loud and clear.
What I'd like to know first of all is how traditional adoption, within the particular aboriginal group that the child belongs to in the first place, happens. Does the federal or the provincial government have a role to play? That's my first question, and then I'll move on.
I'll leave it up to whoever wants to answer.