Jamie Schmale

Okay, so we agree on the name and shame part, and I enjoy your example. At the same time, we're still potentially going back to court again, are we not? I think everyone is sick of court cases and ongoing litigation. Is there another idea that you may have—and I'm putting you on the spot, so you can follow up in writing if you come to it at two in the morning—that points to holding departments [more]

Okay. I think we're part of the conversation with the Auditor General. It's whether or not the government wants to act or do anything about it. I guess reports are okay, but they often get shelved. I was just on the Auditor General's website, and there are tons of reports that everyone's probably forgotten about, which is unfortunate. We talk about a whole-of-government approach; this [more]

Okay. I have a follow-up, but I will get back to you. I want to hear from the executive councillor.

Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you to our witnesses, who are here for this very important study. For those who have been following this study, we've been saying quite often that we agree with the diagnosis, but we have a few issues with the prescription. That, in particular, as was pointed out by our previous witness, is the implementation and the consequences of non-action. Unfortunately, [more]

Let's do it in bunches. I have a few questions.

My question still stands, though. You talked about deep dives, and I get that. That's cool. However, there are only so many resources, so many dollars spent and so much time for deep dives into that. If we're deep diving over here, we still have these problems over there. Once you've done a deep dive there, you're going to move over here, and something else is going to pop up over there. We've [more]

Why is that?

I don't know if I'll get to the treaty questions, but in a few days—

How much time do I have, Chair?

The cost of living obviously is impacting many of your members. You mentioned groceries. People are choosing between heating their homes, eating or getting health care services in general. You've probably seen the many reports that have come out. Food bank usage is at two million people a month. This has been a steady rise to get to this point. Are the economic challenges that we seem to be [more]

Thank you, Chair. Thank you, President Chartrand, for joining us today. Congratulations, as I hear your ways and means motion passed this morning in Parliament. It's the first step to your treaty. I want to talk a bit about that, but you did mention, I believe the wording was, the “Métis-specific health” program.