Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Williams, thank you for what you've shared. I believe the silence was indicative of the respect that we have shown for what you shared with us. Compelling words, that's all I can say, and I'm deeply moved by them, as I'm sure others in this room are.
But I think the words also carry responsibility for us to act, so I want to ask my question to your colleague, Mr. Erasmus. The government has made all kinds of apologies for why they have killed the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. But they have killed it. I have to ask you, with everything they've put on the table, everything that they have brought before us, does it adequately replace the work the Aboriginal Healing Foundation had done, all of that building over 12 or 13 years?
The comment made by Mr. DeGagné was that it was a program designed by aboriginal people, for aboriginal people, delivered by aboriginal people. It's not the same. There's a fundamental and profound difference from just some aboriginal people working in the non-aboriginal Health Canada system. There is a fundamental difference between the approaches, and that is so meaningful in terms of having an outcome.
Do you agree with that? Do you agree that we cannot replace the Aboriginal Healing Foundation with some adapted Health Canada approach?