Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. We rarely use the word “represents”. Since the AFN brings together the 605 Indian chiefs of Canada, the AFNQL invites the 43 men and women who are responsible for acting as first nations chiefs on the territory of Quebec and Labrador. The concept of representation is not really the focus of what we do.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Thank you for welcoming us. I do not think this is the place to enter into a legal debate, as the member was just saying. He was making a distinction between “Consultation” and “consultation”, however. The only comment I would have for the committee—and you just mentioned it as well—is that I do not know how many times we have found ourselves before a committee like this one to discuss the issue of consultations.