Mr. Speaker, it was Jolynn Winter and Chantel Fox, age 12, who died in Wapekeka First Nation, that changed how Jordan's principle was supposed to be administered because the community was begging for support to stop a suicide crisis. That report sat on the bureaucrat's desk and nothing was done.
The Human Rights Tribunal ruled that Canada could no longer refuse to turn around Jordan's principle, because children were dying. Unfortunately, we see a situation that was started under Stephen Harper, the millions he spent against Jordan's principle. The spying he did against Cindy Blackstock, who was the champion of Jordan's principle, was carried on by the Liberals. What the Liberals have learned is that they cannot defy the courts. They can just let the system continue to do what it has always done, which is to deny rights by ignoring them. Children are continuing to die. The system is not broken, my friend; this is how it was built. It was built by the likes of Stephen Harper and it has been continued by the government, and first nations children continue to suffer.
The idea that this guy who lives in Stornoway, who ridiculed residential school survivors, will actually do something for indigenous children is a whopper that I do not think anyone is going to believe.