Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am replacing Mr. Dorion and I am not very familiar with the matters we are discussing today. However, I did work for several years with troubled children and it certainly is an area that has always concerned me.
You do not paint a very positive picture of the state of government action on children's rights in Canada. First, you point out federal-provincial agreements under which it falls to the provinces to apply the legislation and implement the measures that support children and their development, and you say that the federal government, in a sense, asks for no accountability and so has no real idea of what is going on.
It is as if they are washing their hands of what happens in the provinces. Yet, at the same time, where they have direct responsibility for children, for aboriginal children, that is, the situation with regard to their development and to upholding their rights is one of the worst.
Not only that; you also say that no specific assessment measures have been established. Where do you get the information that allows you to give testimony of that kind? As I understand it, you do your own observations and conduct your own tests. You say that the government is not able to conduct the assessments and that there are really no appropriate mechanisms with which to structure an adequate evaluation. But you have your own data.