Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I add my thanks to those of you who are at the table.
I'm sitting here, I guess, in sort of disbelief that in a country as abundant as ours, we are dealing with an issue of this kind.
I said the other day to the witnesses who were here that there is a real urgency in this situation, that a year in the life of a child, whether it's a five-year-old or a ten-year-old, is an eternity and has a profound difference on the potential outcomes of how they live out their life.
I'm thinking about the tripartite agreement that's being touted, and my colleague and I were just talking about this. It's a joint agreement, but it's a joint agreement, as I understand it, without choice. There has been no input into the development of that agreement, as I understand it, or full development with first nations communities.
I'm sitting here and thinking, what if we were to report out tomorrow the primary recommendation—as I'm listening to you speak about going back to the Wen:de report and looking at the recommendations there—and then begin not a hasty process but begin hastily a consultation process with first nations to implement the most appropriate way of dealing with this issue? Am I off base, or is that how we move forward?