Mr. Speaker, what we need to do is put aside our partisan swords. We need to be there for our first nations. This recovery has to be directed by the first nations and what we can do as leaders within our communities. As I have challenged my colleagues before, we need to understand, sit with them, learn from them and listen. We have to walk with them at their pace. This is going to be a long process and, more than ever, we have to be united as one as we walk together. We have to stand with them shoulder to shoulder, grieve with them, hold them in our hearts and lift them up.
In the House of Commons on June 1st, 2021. See this statement in context.