Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for coming today.
I listened to you list your priorities. I have a fair number of aboriginal people in my riding, although I'm not in the downtown core. But the city of Toronto, as you know, has a very large population of aboriginals. The friendship centre there is very good, but at the same time it is just overwhelmed, from what I can see.
So housing, child care, education, employment assistance, they're all part of the same parcel really, and I don't think you can do one without the other. You just said something that I thought was very interesting: let's stop talking about nations and serve the people in urban centres.
We spend so much time figuring out this nation thing, nation to nation, which is fine. I won't even go there. I know there are reasons we ignore one another. My sense is that urban aboriginal people are being lost in the shuffle, in the struggle between federal and provincial jurisdictions.
You mentioned the Kelowna accord earlier, and I'm not going there because it was something our former government signed, but with something of that nature, how would you break this ridiculous constant whereby provinces want to look after urban and the federal government the other? That to me is an artificial discussion. We should all be responsible to make sure it happens, since we have a very large number of young people who are the future of this country.
What parts of the Kelowna accord would you recommend this group look at and revive so we can move on? I just want to see us move beyond the constant discussion we have.