Thank you, Madam Chair.
Good morning. Thank you for being here today.
I find the group of witnesses testifying here very interesting. It is a very different, but very interesting, group than the others we have heard from this week.
Carolyn, I'm wondering about something. Problems with children are starting to crop up in the other provinces. The services responsible for protecting children are starting to remove them from aboriginal communities when there are problems with the family, with young mothers, and so on. These services remove them and take them outside the community for a certain period of time. The same problem existed during the era of residential schools. Even though they aren't being sent to schools or residential schools, they're being sent to foster families and homes where they are cut off from their culture and environment.
A little earlier, you said that you wanted to try to do something different and focus on prevention. That gave me a big smile. We learned yesterday that we're doing the same thing in Saskatchewan as we're doing in Quebec, and that's a mistake. I think that, in 15 or 20 years, we'll see the same problems cropping up as those created by the residential schools.
Could you explain further what you're trying to do here, in Manitoba?