Thank you, Leah.
I think it's incredibly important that we have the opportunity for kinship care and recognition of the cultural relationships within family that we already have, that exist, and be able to support those women and recognize that they also need access to things like child care and the support of community and policies that support the ability to continue to do both. There is not an indigenous person in Canada who isn't in some way impacted by the child welfare system. It's just a fact. It's a fact we all face on a regular basis.
Indigenous governance, indigenous chiefs and councils and first nations governance are consistently dealing with how we ensure that there are connections between children from our communities and their culture. How do we maintain that? The more support there is for kinship care and child care in our communities, the more opportunity there is for that to continue to be done.