I would echo what my colleagues said.
I think, when bills come forward, you're always going to hear misinformation and that sort of thing. The fact of the matter is that Métis people have inherent rights to self-determination, to govern ourselves and to take care of our children. We're not asking to take care of other people's children. We have those rights, as I said earlier. Those rights don't come from here or from out there. They come from the Creator and the people who fought. Many died for us to get to this point. We have to remember that.
The other important point we have to remember, always, is that we are one of the three indigenous peoples in the Canadian Constitution. That is our law. To say, “Well, you know what? I like the first nations. I think I'll deal with them in good faith. For the Inuit, it's the same thing.” What about the Métis? Where is the good faith? Where is the honour of the Crown?
We're listening to all this stuff happening. I believe everybody has the right to speak and have free speech, the right to demonstrate and all of that. At the end of the day, as we sit here and look at that legislation—and I know you've all looked at it—it doesn't affect anybody's rights but our own.