Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague, the member for Crowfoot, for his kind remarks.
He actually pointed to an important aspect of this discussion that perhaps has been overlooked and that is that the residential health support program is in fact an existing program of Health Canada. This is something which, as we heard tonight, through budget 2010 will receive an additional $66 million over the next two years to undertake these important initiatives around the residential schools settlement agreement. That work is going to be undertaken by aboriginal people in many cases who are familiar with and understand and work with the community, elders, people who are integrally involved with the community. They are the ones who are going to be doing the work.
By the way, the importance here is that these are going to be skilled Health Canada workers who will actually be healing individually. Tonight we have heard the words “provide programs directly to families and residential school students”. That is the key because they will work directly, virtually one on one with members of the community to make sure Health Canada is delivering the right programs.