Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you for being here. I appreciate this.
I have a number of little pulled-together questions, because it seems that there are bits and pieces that may be missing.
I want to start with the aboriginal healing centres. As you indicated, it took a long time for the travesty of residential schools to unfold. It started in the late 1800s, and the last school closed in 1996. This is a lot of intergenerational despair. It is profound harm to families, generation after generation after generation, and to communities.
I'm wondering what the thought is behind saying that we can fix it all in 12 years, or that 12 years is enough time to work through these problems. It seems to me that after 12 years we're just getting started.
Do you have any light to shed there?