Thank you all for your important testimony.
It's great to see you all again after we visited a couple of years ago and the warm welcome you gave us when we were out there to study the decline of the Atlantic salmon and the Atlantic cod.
I'll start with Chief Ginnish. You talked about consultation. Where I live we're having the same issue. You probably heard about the court case the Nuu-Chah-Nulth have been in for the last 12 years. The government spent $19 million fighting them in court for rights that we know are protected under the charter and the Constitution.
With the challenges you face as a community right on the water, being unable to access economic opportunities and being challenged by high unemployment and food insecurity and diabetes and the various challenges that come with that, do you believe that DFO has consulted you adequately? We had them here to testify. I asked them specifically if they had consulted the nation around the process and around the striped bass. Do you believe that was adequate consultation or would you say that DFO conferred with the nation?