Regional Chief Googoo, you talked about the Assembly of First Nations not taking a position on this bill, and then you listed a number of things you thought needed to be done to make it better, such as funding, repatriation, looking at cultural items, developing domestic and international catalogues, and co-development processes in legislation.
A lot of the things we were talking about seem to be things that need to be attached around the bill in terms of resources to make the bill function. I think we've talked about both of those things, rather than just focusing on the bill, and I understand that. That's an important part of it, being able to change.
The Semiahmoo people where I live had a welcoming pole taken down by the department of highways about 10 years ago and trucked off someplace. It took years to find it. They just put it up. The province has paid for putting it up at the Peace Arch border crossing. It's a beautiful Haida pole.
Bill Casey came to talk to us about this bill and said that we just want to get on with it and get something happening. Do you think this could be phased in, so that we could actually pass some of the legislation that talks about getting it there and then build all of these other pieces? If we're going to do all of the things we want to do and tie it to, it's going to take us a much longer time and it will be much more robust and difficult than what Bill Casey was proposing, which was to raise some awareness about this to see if we can get something happening. Do you think this is something that could happen in two stages or phases?