Thank you for the question.
I also think that was an important moment in Parliament's history. I remember the day very well.
At some level, reconciliation is achieved every time we deal with an historic issue, if there's a land claim issue or a piece of litigation. Or in the specific claims area, there are grievances about transactions that the Government of Canada made in the past, which were seen as, or were, unfair to first nations in many cases. All of those settlements that bring a bit of closure to the past are a part of reconciliation.
In terms of the residential schools agreement and the Canadians who went to residential schools and whose families and communities were affected, the first job is the steady implementation of that settlement agreement, which started in 2006. We're a little bit past the halfway mark on that. We've dealt with the common experience payment by and large. We're working our way through other parts of the settlement agreement, some of which involve commemoration projects in making sure that history isn't forgotten. And some of it involves the Truth and Reconciliation Commission itself, which is travelling around the country and will be in Halifax this week to have another one of its national events. So that's an important part of it.
Just to answer about another sort of a legislative possibility, which is really purely symbolic in terms of its effect but still an important part of the reconciliation, Minister Strahl committed at the Winnipeg event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to see if we could find legislation that would wipe off the statutes of Canada all of the provisions that created the residential school system in the first place. I'm hoping that it's a bill that this Parliament will see this fall, as well.