I agree. But the thing that this committee has to understand is that when you transfer the power to do the consultation to another party, like the Alberta government, which in turn transfers it to another third party, which is industry, to do the consultation, the industry players have no authority to do any consultation with us. We are a first nation; we are a government. “Industry” is just exactly what they are: it's industry.
For a consultation to be true and meaningful and respectful of both parties, it has to be from government to government, just the way the treaties were made. When the treaties were signed, it was the government with our first nations.