Thank you to all our witnesses for being here today.
I want to direct my first question to National Chief Archibald. First, thank you for being here to express some of the concerns that indigenous people have regarding the use of the Emergencies Act and what it may mean for them in future scenarios. I think one of the opportunities here at this committee is to provide recommendations to government on what we learned through this particular use of the Emergencies Act and what kinds of things we might look at putting in place, whether that's changes to the act itself or whether that's better guidelines and practices to inform future uses of the act, if there are future uses of the act.
I'm wondering if you might have some recommendations along those lines. In your opening remarks, I think you made a good case for why the position of first nation people here in Canada is different from many other protests, particularly in respect of defending land and water rights. I'm wondering if you might have some recommendations for either us as a committee as we explore these issues or the government that you would like to see this committee make as part of its review.