Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to both witnesses for appearing today.
I want to start with some questions or remarks from Mr. Anderson. We very much appreciate your testimony, in particular with regard to the problem of awards through the Indian residential schools settlements.
I'd like to pursue that a little more with you but also let you know that we on the NDP side have prepared an amendment to exempt those settlements because of other concerns we've heard. If I understood correctly what you were saying, there are a couple of problems if they are included.
One is that including them takes reconciliation out of the cultural context. The other seems to be that it takes away agency from the person who needs to make his or her own decision to pursue that reconciliation.
Is that a correct understanding of what you were saying?