Thank you for that.
What concerns me is that you identify in your report that, back in 2000, indigenous affairs committed that they would start to get comparable numbers, in 2004, I believe. The Auditor General asked for that in maybe 2011. They followed up in 2016. The Parliamentary Budget Officer asked where those comparable numbers were, and this department hadn't bothered to get the numbers. To me, this is not a failure. This is systemic negligence. If this was in the provincial system, heads would roll, but with indigenous affairs, it's just another day at the office.
How can we be looking at a report today where they haven't bothered to gather information they were told to get 18 years ago? For a child who was in grade 8 then, their kids are in the same broken system. I've got kids who are dropping out. We're losing generation after generation of young people because of this negligence. How do you hold them to account to say, if you are not going to bother to even track the numbers you were ordered to by the Auditor General, you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near programs for children?