I'll be brief, because I want to give half of my time to our guest, Mr. Badawey.
Chief Erasmus, I understood your message initially, which was to have an appreciation of the constitutionally protected agreements that have been signed over the course of history between the crown and first nations. If we don't have regard for the text of those and the protections they encompass, then we're missing half the story.
Today, we're looking at federal legislation within federal jurisdiction, and it covers the entirety of Canada and all Canadians, including indigenous Canadians, who are the recipients of protection pursuant to this law in addition to any other protections they may benefit from pursuant to other agreements. We have heard from other witnesses that, in the context of this legislation, particularly, the enshrinement of principles of environmental rights would provide additional and necessary protections for all Canadians, indigenous and non-indigenous, and that those would be very helpful.
From an aboriginal perspective, would you be supportive of that kind of integration of environmental rights concepts in this legislation?