Thank you.
We oppose this each time it appears, as has just been suggested. The challenge is this: We have a Constitution. We have a duty to consult. We have the courts that have interpreted the duty to consult for decades now. Most Canadians and most lawyers understand, generally, what that duty looks like. We're imposing and inserting UNDRIP—which is the declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples—on which there is so much disagreement on what it actually entails. Does it entail an absolute veto, a partial veto, or no veto at all? We've seen testimony at this table from our first nations. Some suggest there is no veto.