Again, this is one of these changes that need to happen because the poverty in indigenous communities is sometimes overwhelming. As a person who spent multiple years living on a reserve, being part of it, and whose home was a foster home to keep children in that community who were sometimes taken specifically due to poverty....That may not be what was in the report, but that was the outcome of it.
This really engages the federal government to take leadership and say that there is something bigger happening here. Rather than removing the child, what do we need to do better as a federal government and as the people who are responsible for looking at the process of funding, at housing criteria, and so on?
Again, I'm going to say it. The framework must be strong. If the framework is not strong, then it continues to do what has happened in this country since it started, which is put the onus on the people who are struggling the most. This is an opportunity to take that and say that we are part of the strategy, and we owe it because we created the problem in the first place.
I encourage the members on the other side to consider that.