Thank you, Mr. Chair, and my thanks to all the witnesses this morning for your presentations and for your time.
I'd like to start this morning with Chief Louis.
Some of the points that you brought up we started to hear in the original study on the national conversation plan. I'd like to tease them out a little bit, given that I think you wanted a little bit more time during your presentation.
The first concept that I wanted to talk about was how we as a government can leverage and incorporate indigenous traditional knowledge into habitat recovery and species management. We know that aboriginal peoples were the first conservationists, and still are. I'm just wondering if you could speak a little bit about this. After that, I'll turn the floor over to Mr. McNeely to speak about opportunities for leveraging that knowledge and about possible friction points.