There's a really deep misunderstanding of the application of the declaration, whether it be with the federal government or the provincial government. Too often, we hear the UNDRIP, DRIPA or UNDRIPA.
I'd like to focus on those three key articles—19, 29 and 32—because then we can make sense of it. It's not so much about you, as a federal government, or the provincial government coming up with a mandate on how to apply those three articles. Let's build it together. That piece is really missing right now, Ms. Barron.
It seems like both levels of government are taking co-development in place of collaboration. You can co-develop with a very small group of people. With all due respect, I have a lot of respect for the First Nations Leadership Council, but in this case, there are seven representatives representing 203 communities, whereas we have the organization to be representative ourselves.
Our 31 communities here are building a Sendai-based regional action plan, so we will have the strategy that anybody and everybody can look at. If you meet these standards, you're meeting the declaration or certain articles in the declaration.
There's lots of room to learn and do good things together. We just need to be at the table to do that with open-minded representatives sitting across the table and with us at the table.