Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I will cede the rest of my time to Mr. Sarai.
Thank you all for being here.
Actually, I don't really have a question. I'm going to make a statement on Mr. Ferguson's message—not these last reports, but the ones from fall 2017, and on the fact that we tend, as governments, to focus a lot on process and not necessarily on outcomes in how we deliver for people, for Canadians.
I think that when we ask ourselves the “why” of these failures, we have to look very much at the relationship we had with first nations, Métis and Inuit, and how we saw ourselves as the service providers and almost as the supervisors of how it was being done. It's reasonably recently that we've changed this approach and changed the relationship we have with indigenous peoples, and I think that's part of the “why” of the failure. For decades we saw this very much as an “I pay, you deliver” kind of service, and now it's a partnership. It will take some time to correct the way this is done, and I do appreciate the efforts you're making to develop these programs with indigenous peoples by getting them to tell you what they need and what they actually will be able to work with. Perhaps that will be the change that we need to see for the future.
I just wanted to make that statement, and I would like to pass the remainder of my time to Mr. Sarai.