Thank you, Chair.
I have two questions. They regard children. In the communities I represent, children are being educated in dangerous conditions.
In Kashechewan, we were meeting with the students and waterlogged tiles fell into the middle of the classroom in a talk about how they should be fighting for education rights. We had to move out of the classroom. In Marten Falls, I'm getting calls from parents who are terrified because their kids are going to school where there's no sprinkler system. What would happen in a fire? That would be illegal in the provincial system, but it's just another day at Indian Affairs. They don't even track the conditions of the schools they're supposed to be responsible for, so has the AFN looked at what it will take?
I really don't think our communities can wait any longer. They need the action. They needed it last year and they needed it the year before, but they certainly can't wait another 10 or 15 years until Indian Affairs gets around to fixing these things, because children's lives in some cases are literally on the line.