Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to start off by acknowledging the historic moment we're part of right now. Many ministers have come before us to talk about Indigenous Services Canada, but you're the first one to actually be indigenous yourself and to have the lived experience of not only growing up in but also working in indigenous communities. I want to congratulate you for that.
It even makes me happy to see that the first questions were given by a first nations person in the Conservative Party, and that I get to move along forward as a first nations person for the Liberals. I just think that's a great moment, and I want to acknowledge that.
I also want to put you on the hot seat a bit. Over the summer, we heard a lot of concerns around Jordan's principle and the funding that was there. We heard about the backlog of cases. Several communities were very concerned about how we were moving forward with Jordan's principle. I'm wondering if you could talk a little bit about how our government is responding to those concerns. I did see more than $1 billion in this budget that was released. Can you talk a little bit about our government's response to indigenous concerns around Jordan's principle?