I would go one step further and say that it shouldn't be the vision of Indigenous Services Canada. It has to be the vision of first nations communities and indigenous leaders. Then, the department has a responsibility to work in partnership with first nations and indigenous communities and, yes, provinces, to breathe life into that.
There are many services that are delivered through provincial partners that provincial partners are funded by the federal government to deliver and that residents in those provinces have a right to receive. We must all, as members of Parliament, hold accountable, at every level of government, a principle of equitable access.
I will speak a little more about health. You, I know, are familiar with the situation, the crisis, the terrible tragedy, in health care. You speak about it a lot, but it's even worse for indigenous people seeking health care. We only have to look at Joyce Echaquan and her family to see what the worst-case scenario is.
In terms of emergency management, when there is a crisis it is all hands on deck. It is provincial, municipal, federal and, indeed, first nations leaders themselves. The role we will play in the years to come is to help communities increase their capacity to have a plan in place, be able to increase their resiliency in terms of infrastructure, and increase that self-determination capacity to have a plan that's going to work and reduce the trauma that some of my colleagues have been speaking about that results from a colonial approach.