Thank you very much.
Thank you, Ms. Hilton, for joining us. I'm sorry that technical difficulties meant we didn't get a chance to hear an opening statement from you.
I do have a couple of questions, one a little more specific and one more general.
I'm not sure if you were able to hear the committee proceedings prior to joining the call. In testimony earlier, there was some talk about foreign capital investment in Canada and natural resource development. We had heard some suggestion that new rules around natural resource development were making it so that people didn't want to invest in Canada.
Would you like to comment on the extent to which respect for indigenous rights and title and land rights and welcoming indigenous people to the table as real partners in natural resource development in Canada might create a climate with more certainty for investors on projects where there are willing partners?
Then, more generally, because we didn't get an opening statement from you, I would like to give you my time to offer up your recommendations on the budget, particularly with any kind of focus you can give us on how budgetary measures could help to empower indigenous people in Canada, and help them take their seat at the economic table and grow the economy.
I will leave it to you to answer those two questions with the time remaining.
Thank you.