Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Asselin, thank you for the clarifications you provided earlier in response to my questions. One of the things you talked about was the distinction between belief and knowledge and the need to validate and replicate experiences. We understand that science is not perfect either.
I would like to talk about the work of Yves Gingras, sociologist for science and Canada Research Chair in History, Sociology and Science. According to him, indigenous knowledge sometimes has a spiritual connotation, which can't be clearly or materially palpable. So it's difficult to compare it with the scientific knowledge acquired using a very specific scientific method. We can think of scurvy, for example, on which both traditional and scientific knowledge exists.
However, he says that we're pitting indigenous people against non‑indigenous people, thinking that they are two homogeneous groups, when they are two heterogeneous groups with differences, including knowledge and expertise, within them.
Can you comment on that?