Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, reforming child and family services has been a serious topic in this chamber since before the first major audit in 2014, and it has remained so ever since despite each new audit reminding us that nothing has ever changed.

After reading last week's audit, I find myself wondering at what point do we start trying to fix a problem or a department that does not want to change. The fact that no Minister has ever improved child and family services calls into question whether any Minister ever will. So today I want to ask my colleagues what exactly we are asking for when we say we want change.

We continue to ask the Minister to change how the department operates to improve outcomes. Yet, like every Minister before her, she invokes our trust and patience until we look the other way. This is not a serious conversation.

There is a consensus in this chamber that the territorial government is a colonial institution so why should it be entrusted with our Indigenous children? To us, the fact that 90 percent of the children in care are Indigenous is a simple problem but within a colonial structure, that is simply standard practice.

As Murray Sinclair said, the residential school monster now lives on in the child welfare system. So when this government was non-committal on establishing an Office of a Child and Youth Advocate, I was not surprised because I was not -- that I were responsible for keeping that monster alive. I would avoid independent oversight too.

So when the Minister says trust me and be patient, what I hear her telling me is that when constituents call me in the middle of the night because their children were apprehended at the airport or child apprehension where officers beat down the front door with a sledgehammer at a grandmother's home who is watching the grandchildren, that I should trust her and that they will be bad parents and be patient because eventually they'll lose hope and stop asking for help.

Mr. Speaker, I am not looking the other way and neither are my leaders, nor do I believe deeply colonial systems can be reformed. I will ask the Minister later today whether she will advance the transfer of child and family services to Indigenous governments or whether she will make a way for someone who will. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.