Thanks, Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, all four of you, for being here.
Could I start with CAP for a second and get a sense of this fuller integration of aboriginal traditional knowledge?
I am very naive in asking this question. I know a little something about ATK. But is it the view of the Congress that ATK ought to be treated equally with respect to, for example, scientific findings by COSEWIC? Should ATK knowledge be able to trump COSEWIC science? I don't understand exactly why there is this need, I guess, to more mainstream ATK knowledge. I guess by implication what you're saying is that aboriginal traditional knowledge is being ignored or marginalized or that COSEWIC science is trumping ATK. Can you help us understand?