Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to move the motion that I put on notice a while back, around the losses of churches in the communities in my riding and around the country.
I read that motion into the record a few meetings back. I would like to get that motion to a vote today. It doesn't ask for a study or anything like that. It just asks for a report to the House. I think we can get that done here today.
Over 80 church buildings have been reported burnt in this country. Most of these have been on first nation reserves and were used by local indigenous people. These losses of church buildings have been devastating to these communities. These churches are places of milestones like weddings, funerals, baptisms and that sort of thing.
Community members have come to me and shown their displeasure for this. Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation—