Thank you, Mr. Chair.
As the chair pointed out, it is voluntary to answer questions in writing and follow up, so if you choose, James Bay committee and AFN, I would love a follow-up about something that my colleague, Monsieur Coderre, brought up: the cuts to the environmental assessment agency.
These are my questions. What is your experience of the agency's efforts to address aboriginal consultation? We can give you this in writing, so you don't need to write it all down. What do you foresee with the sunsetting of the funding for consultation? Also, we've heard some testimony about consultation fatigue and the inability to keep up. That to me has a lot to do with participant funding. Do you think there is or will be adequate participant funding?
Then I'd like to turn the rest of the time over to you, back to my original question about what we're doing here as a committee. We're going to meet soon and talk about our schedule and talk about what we're doing next with this seven-year review. Should we be out in communities? Should we be talking to first nations currently engaged with the process or engaged in the past? Who? What? Any ideas on what we should be doing, specifically with first nations issues?