Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Sproul, the Sipekne’katik are the second-largest Mi’kmaq community in Nova Scotia, and the largest community in mainland Nova Scotia, which I'm sure you're well aware of. Their community has been affected by centralization, oppression under the Indian Act, and intergenerational effects from residential schools. Their leadership has chosen to implement its 1760-61 treaty right, the constitutionally protected right in Supreme Court decisions. Given these colonial oppressions that have suppressed the Sipekne’katik people from entering the middle-class society of Canada, do you support the fact that the Sipekne’katik themselves must determine what a moderate livelihood is?