Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for that special attention.
Kwe, Chief Haymond. Meegwetch for being here. I’m especially honoured to be able to have this discussion with you.
I will read the start of paragraph 2.18, located in the section of the report outlining findings and recommendations:
We found that Indigenous Services Canada and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation accepted the Assembly of First Nations’ 2021 estimate of the housing gap. However, the department and the corporation did not have a strategy to support First Nations in closing the housing gap by 2030.
Chief Haymond, don’t you think that was an essential opportunity to seize for co-creating a strategy and leveraging indigenous expertise and knowledge that indigenous people have of their territory in order to close the current housing construction gap?
Mr. Chair, I’m told that the video broadcast isn’t working, so it will be a little more difficult for people to follow our proceedings online. Can you make sure everything is working correctly on a technical level?