Ms. Crowder, I think that the same honest desperation that I can hear in your voice led us to bring together 475 aboriginal leaders and 22 cabinet ministers in April 2004 to say, let's fix this. This is a blight on our country. It's a blight on our governments. And everybody has to accept responsibility for what the situation was in April 2004.
I think nobody is proud of that history. Everybody is embarrassed by this history. Let's fix it.
A lot of this is about that, and a lot of this is about trust. A lot of this is about collaboration. So in April we met. As a group, we together decided on the six areas that we were going to study. I was the minister of housing at the time. That September we started with health, coincidentally, because there was a first ministers meeting on health. The aboriginal leaders were rightfully saying, “You said we'd have a seat at the table; we want to be there”. They were, and we did the health piece.
That winter we took all six areas for deliberation and had round tables all over Canada. I attended all of them. At that time it became apparent to me that there was going to be a significant resource issue. Also everywhere we went, it became obvious that we were going to have to engage the provinces.
I held a meeting on March 17 with the provinces.
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