Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Wernick, you were Deputy Minister of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Canada from May 2006 to July 2014. This Auditor General's report, as well as previous reports, demonstrated that there had been very little, if any, improvement in housing in indigenous communities during your time as deputy minister.
You then served as Clerk of the Privy Council from 2016 to 2019. The Auditor General's report that has just been published and is being studied today indicates that there has been very little improvement, if not a deterioration, in the housing situation. Let's think in particular of those that were in need of major repairs.
Yet billions of dollars have been invested.
You were Clerk of the Privy Council. Don't you think there are some important lessons to be learned, by this committee and others, about what needs to be done today to solve this problem? This one probably stems, once again, from an error in the federal government's approach or vision of indigenous people.