Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you so much, guests, for your testimony. It really links to a lot of testimony we've heard around the need for long-term stable funding that goes to the communities. With that funding, the communities are able to have community-driven priorities, rather than INAC or paternalistically driven priorities.
I think everyone would agree that a transformation needs to occur. I certainly know that's what our Prime Minister has communicated and that's what our government is trying to work towards. I guess the difficulty we've heard from a lot of the witness statements is the multi-faceted nature of the problem. Yes, we're studying the suicide crisis, but how has this been derived? It's multi-generational to trauma, residential schools, etc. However, within the communities themselves, whether it's cultural awareness, health, mental health, education, housing, food, employment, skills training and development, where would you start? I know you have to approach these problems in a multi-faceted way, but if the money was getting to the communities—and I'll direct this first to Dr. Lafontaine—where would you start to spend that money that you think would have the greatest impact and evolve towards this transformation?
