Well, Mr. Chairman, thank you for the question.
As I've indicated, these problems that aboriginals are dealing with on first nations reserves are very serious; they're urgent. What I think we need is a fundamental change in the approach to dealing with them, in addition to dealing with the four structural impediments that we've identified in the report. In order to avoid a possible time bomb, I think we need urgent action and a clear path forward.
So as I've indicated earlier, Mr. Chairman, if this committee were to request from government some clarity as to how it intends to proceed in dealing with this very serious matter, as I consider it to be, then both this committee and Michael and I in our capacity as auditors could use that as a basis for holding government to account.
A former chair of this committee used to call the public accounts committee the accountability committee, and I believe that what we need here is a basis for this committee to be able to hold government to account for dealing with these serious matters on a go-forward basis in order to avoid that time bomb.