Thank you very much.
Thank you to all our witnesses for the very compelling testimony here today.
Mr. Wood, I would also like to thank you for sharing such personal stories and how we need to learn from that as a parliamentary committee in terms of our recommendations.
I will direct my questions to Mr. Neepin, who is on the phone from Manitoba.
Mr. Neepin, I would like to thank you for your presentation on behalf of the Keewatin Tribal Council and the 13 first nations that the Keewatin Tribal Council represents. I wanted to pick up first on the points that you made with regard to post-secondary student support. I realize that you referred to it at the end. You talked about how there's a need for more post-secondary funding and how this connects to student outcomes in particular.
We know that the 2% cap that was put in place in the late nineties continues to exist, and this is something that has essentially created a massive backlog of upward of 10,000 first nation students across the country who would like to further their education at the post-secondary level, but simply cannot because of inadequate funding. I'm wondering if you could share with us what it looks like not to have adequate post-secondary funding. What are the kinds of stories you hear from students from the KTC region, or perhaps others as well, who don't have adequate post-secondary funding?