We know there are many chronic problems in many first nations communities, and in your paper entitled, “First Nation Communities in Distress: Dealing with Causes, not Symptoms”, you discussed distressed communities on the extreme end of the well-being continuum. These communities exhibit characteristics such as high levels of social pathologies, high levels of dependency on social assistance, poorly functioning government services, poor housing, rundown public infrastructure. It goes on to note problems relating to governance, little in the way of cultural activities.
My question to you again is, does Bill C-27 address these problems?