Thank you, Chief. If I understand you clearly, you're calling for symmetry between treaty rights and existing federal statutes in this area. I'm going to wait for your brief to get the details, if I could.
I'd like to turn to Elder Marcel for a second.
Elder Marcel, I'd like to congratulate you and thank you for coming here to tell us what you're seeing first-hand on the ground.
Just two weeks ago, we in the official opposition were deeply disturbed when my colleague Mr. Scarpaleggia put a question about water quality to the minister in the House of Commons during question period. And the minister referred--for the first time in my professional life, because I've never heard anyone, certainly not a Minister of the Environment, do this before--to scientific findings as “allegations”. It was a stunning moment, I think, in Canadian environmental political history. I'd never seen it before, and haven't seen it anywhere else.
Can you tell me, in your experience, are we as a federal government, this federal government, properly enforcing--if you know, or if you are in a position to tell us--the existing standards, whether they're under the Species at Risk Act, the Fisheries Act, or elsewhere? You made a very, very passionate and compelling case.