Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our guests for being here to answer questions. Some of them I would have liked the minister to answer, but of course time is limited.
I want to use the minister's opening remarks.
The Oceans Act…also was one of the first federal statutes to enshrine a non-derogation clause. Bill C-55 does not need to include provisions relating to indigenous rights and titles—this provision is already enshrined in the act and will stay that way.
Are we to infer, then, that indigenous communities will see no real change in terms of the rights they had previously?
Could you elaborate on that for us?