Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister and Deputy Minister, for being here today. I appreciate the opportunity to engage with you in this important discussion.
Minister, you threw out a bunch of statistics about graduation rates. The study has a graduation rate focus, but there's a focus also on improving outcomes of education overall, which I guess is measured by graduation rates. You threw out a bunch of numbers on indigenous rates, but I want to talk for a few minutes about the rates on first nations. The departmental results report that I saw recently actually shows that the percentage of first nations reserve students who graduate from secondary school has declined by just over six per cent in the last four or five years.
I'm curious what your comment would be on that. Where do you think the breakdown is, relative to the other improvements that you talked about?