Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thanks to the Member for Deh Cho for the question.
Just by way of background, the Child and Family Services Act came into force in 1998, and it has a provision to be reviewed every five years, and it is being reviewed this year.
The purpose of the act is, and will continue to be, to ensure that the best interests of the child are taken care of. What has changed is that there is more of a focus now on prevention rather than protection. So protection is still present, but prevention needs to be exhausted first.
So there are opportunities for counselling, parenting programs, services to improve housing, treatment if that's required, and any other service that may be helpful to the family to address the issues that they are having and to keep them together, to keep them whole as a family unit.
The act recognizes that the best place for a child is in the family home. And the reason to take the child out of that home is only because they are not safe in that home.
So using this new approach, we have been able to ensure that 92 percent of children who received child and family services are in their own home or in their home communities.
So the practice of taking children out of their communities and cultures is something that we're moving beyond in this era of reconciliation. Thank you.