I'd like to welcome Ms. Baggley and Ms. Murphy, who are from the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. They are specifically from the social policy and programs branch and deal with child welfare only. That's their specific expertise and that's what I hope we're going to discuss.
Welcome.
You have 10 minutes between you, within which you can make a submission to us. Then there will be questions and answers.
As you know, we are looking at the issue specifically of child welfare. Something we heard over and over as we travelled across the country is that children being taken into care in large numbers is a real problem. As you heard, it is a larger number than the total number of children who were ever sent to residential schools, so we're going to be asking questions on that particular issue and on how your department is dealing with child welfare for aboriginal people.
Who is going to begin?
Ms. Murphy, will you share your time, or will you do the whole 10 minutes?