I've been involved in crafting legislation for child protection. It was a 250-page document in Ontario when we wrote the entire child protection act, and it took several years to get to that point.
My concern here is that there's a.... The member opposite knows that I'm very supportive of the indigenous community and many of the pieces she's talking to. My problem right now is that I feel this is a last-minute attempt to fix something that fundamentally doesn't really cover a comprehensive issue that deserves more attention than this. To miss out completely on the indigenous community and at the last minute throw them in with an amendment, rather than building a comprehensive type of bill, worries me. What else is missing here? What else has been left out?
I'm personally not going to support this amendment, based mainly on the fact that I don't think it does justice to the indigenous community.
I respect the member opposite who made the amendment. I think that's the right thing to do, but I don't have confidence in just putting this in at the last minute without really going out there and listening to the community. They've been completely ignored in this bill. They're not included in it. I think it's insulting to the community, to be honest.
Thank you.