Thank you for that.
One of the things I've spent most of my political career dealing with is the huge inequity faced by first nations children, particularly in the far north. Our greatest resource in this country isn't oil. It's not gold. It's not copper. It's this generation of indigenous children, and they've been failed at every single level.
I was very excited in 2017 when the government announced the indigenous early learning child care plan, yet we waited five years: In 2022 they announced a framework. I mean, five years is an enormous time in the life of a child. The communities I'm talking to are still waiting.
Why is this delay in place in communities where these children have greater needs, I would argue, than pretty much any other section of the country in terms of childhood education and opportunity?