The essence of your presentation, if I'm not betraying your thoughts, is that the point-of-sale exemption that exists now must be read as being a right granted to the first nations over the years as an extension of other treaty rights that had been recognized and that exist. Based on past experience, has anyone in the federal government been able to give you an argument why they're not consulting you, why they're not carrying out what is required, an adequate and meaningful consultation, because all they're doing is setting themselves up for a fall? It's patently obvious to anyone who knows Canadian law that you have a right to meaningful and real consultation and it's being denied you.
So has anyone in Indian and Northern Affairs, has anyone in Minister Flaherty's office been able to provide you with at least the beginning of a rationale, “No, we don't have to consult you because”...?