Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Mr. Saulis, I'd like to start with you and thank you for appearing before our committee and offering an important indigenous perspective on this conversation we're having.
You very correctly outlined the disparities that exist and the intergenerational trauma that is still there. I know I see it in communities where I live, among the Halkomelem-speaking people, the Coast Salish and the Nuu-chah-nulth nations.
I've gotten to know many elders in my time as a member of Parliament, and the hurt is there; it's just below the surface.
When you look at the calls to action that were released so many years ago, and particularly the health calls to action, calls to action 18 to 24, do we need to frame this conversation about medical assistance in dying with that frame in mind, the fact that so many of these calls to action, particularly on health outcomes and the supports and services that are available for first nations, Inuit and Métis across Canada are still so substandard? Can you expand on that, please?