Madam Chair, I have been listening to the debate, and what I feel is shame. We have been talking about this for years. We have the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which spent years criss-crossing Canada, gathering testimony from thousands of people who said that what happened at residential schools in Canada over the past 150 years was a scandal. Here we are again this evening talking about various possibilities.
I did not like the fact that my colleague said Canadians would have to read the report. It is not up to Canadians to read the report. It is up to the Government of Canada. The government is the one that has to implement the action plan and provide the resources to make that happen. That is what it has to do.
I have a simple question for my colleague. Does she acknowledge that the way indigenous individuals and indigenous children were treated in residential schools over a period of 150 years was a bona fide genocide?