Madam Chair, from the bottom of my heart I want to acknowledge the courage of what the member for Calgary Nose Hill just did. It is all too rare in this place to apologize for words, especially when they were meant, as the hon. member noted, from a good place.
However, it is appalling that the landfills remain open. I hear the voices of Morgan's daughter and Marcedes' family and other people, saying, “Look, stop putting garbage there, at least. Let us find a way to find the remains of our loved ones.”
We already have the loved ones, the children who were stolen over so many years in the residential school system. Those children are still underground. We have to acknowledge that the grief of families is never resolved through having the remains, but the wound remains far more open when the remains are not available for burial, for respect and to be brought home.