Thank you, Chair.
Welcome, Minister Clarke. Thank you for being here.
For my first question, Minister, I heard you speaking to this a bit already, but we have already heard witnesses to date—the chiefs, first nations representatives and so on—talking about the serious hardship and strain that the lack of access to salmon places on their communities, culturally and traditionally, on their language and on food security. There are many ways in which the lack of access to salmon is impacting these communities.
You spoke about this in the Whitehorse Daily Star article, which I have with me today. You talked about “the great sacrifice of Yukon First Nations”.
I know you spoke a bit about what the Yukon government is doing. Perhaps you might want to add a piece or two to that. I'm wondering if you can share what you feel the federal Liberal government needs to be doing to ensure that first nations are not disproportionately impacted by this agreement.