Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Campbell brought back a little bit of history with Mr. Williams and with regard to the educational file on first nations, and, quite frankly, it is tremendously disturbing. I can recall sitting on that committee back then with Mr. Christopherson. At that point, for the previous 20 years we hadn't been able to close the education gap. Here we are seven or eight years later and we still have significant difficulties.
So I'm deeply disturbed, as I think most Canadians are. Quite frankly, all of the partners, whether you're first nations, province or federal...there is obviously shared jurisdiction.
My concern is this. Mr. Campbell, we now finally have some tripartite agreements. We have six of them in place now. Is this a step forward?