Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the 14th meeting of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.
Pursuant to the order of the day, we are studying the matter of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation.
This afternoon we welcome four witnesses, four organizations in fact, in our continuing study pertaining to the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. I see that one of our witnesses is yet to arrive. That doesn't stop us from proceeding.
I'm sure some of you have done this before. If you haven't, essentially we'll allow ten minutes for each presentation, and as you'll see, questions from members are timed. After each of the four ten-minute presentations we will go to a round of questions from members of Parliament in a prescribed order. That is seven minutes for the questions and responses, and we'll give you more on that as we go through.
We'd like to welcome, from Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the director, Elizabeth Ford. She is the director for the Department of Health and Environment. She's joined by Jim Cincotta. Jim is the senior policy adviser, Department of Health and the Environment.
Let's begin with your presentation, Ms. Ford, and then we'll proceed down the row.