Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the panellists for being here to share your testimony with us today. It's a difficult issue we're dealing with.
I'm thinking of my constituent, Ernie Crey, a Stó:lo elder who lost his sister in British Columbia in a very high-profile case. It was one of the cases that led to the B.C. Missing Women Commission of Inquiry.
As British Columbians, perhaps we followed that inquiry a little more closely than others. It was on the news all the time. It was a very high-profile commissioner. As I recall, it slowly disintegrated. Certain individuals didn't want to participate, certain groups didn't participate, others halfway through the process didn't find it satisfactory. As a commission of inquiry, that perhaps isn't exactly what was envisioned. There were very high hopes for it. It made its recommendations a year ago almost to the day, and I don't think anyone is any further along the road to reconciliation, to implementing the solutions. You said, “We know what the solutions are,” and perhaps that commission had some solutions revealed.
National Chief, to you as a fellow British Columbian, what did you take out of that inquiry? What was learned from it? I don't know that anyone would look at that process and say, “Boy, that's something we need to replicate at a national level.”