Yes, I've been involved with first nations in a number of negotiations and consultations since around 2000. Of course, in this role, we are heavily involved in first nation consultations across the country—over 300. What we're seeing from the nations is pretty fantastic.
I know the first nations are nervous about the time frame, how much we're trying to get done and how quickly we're trying to do it. I know they're not used to that, because a lot of consultations were taking years, and a lot of projects weren't getting done.
They have every right to be, in my mind, skeptical around what the intentions of the Major Projects Office are. We're new. We're not proven yet. We haven't shown them what our intentions are, and we haven't followed through yet and made sure that the work we do is as we say it's going to be.
I was more expressing that I know they don't trust us, and it's up to me to do the work and to show them. I didn't say it well enough, and I regret that.