Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to all of you.
I'm learning a lot today, and all of my questions are about things I don't understand.
Chief Allan Adam from the Chipewyan First Nation was here. It would have been a couple of years ago, wouldn't it? When he was testifying he was talking very much about living off the land, people having to really live off the land, harvest off the land, eat the animals and the fish coming from the water. That got me thinking about some testimony we heard last week from the Maritime Aboriginal Peoples Council and the Assembly of First Nations. They talked about habitat degradation as violating a treaty right.
That's something I had never thought of before. It's a very new concept to me, and the way you've been talking in your testimony really underscores that idea of healthy habitat being a treaty right.
Can you tell me a little bit more about this? It really is something new for me.