Thanks, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank you both for coming before the committee today.
This bill has been touted as being very simple, and we should just get on with it. Speaking for myself, certainly I support the repeal of section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Most of the witnesses who have come before the committee also support it. The problem is the process.
Ms. Cornet, we already know from your paper--Mr. Chartrand touched on this as well--that there already are a number of other ways in which people raise human rights issues; you mentioned 2001. Currently, for example, the Assembly of First Nations has filed a human rights complaint based on underfunding for child protection. There have been other human rights complaints filed around denial of education services, which is one of the cases mentioned in this paper.
You also stated in your paper, Ms. Cornet, that a simple repeal of section 67 does not address the other equality issues—the inequality issues—that are already entrenched in the Indian Act. It seems there's much more we need to do around protecting human rights rather than section 67.
I wonder if you could comment, both of you, on the broader human rights violations that exist and that we need to address in a more coherent, comprehensive fashion.