Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the committee for allowing me to sit in on behalf of my colleague. It's good to see folks again.
Thanks to our witnesses for your time today and your contributions to this study.
Mr. Barnes, it's good to have you here from our part of the world. Listening to you talk about your nation brought me back to the summer, when I was paddling down the Kispiox and the Skeena rivers, connecting with Gitxsan fish harvesters out there fishing at family fishing sites that have been used for thousands of years and reflecting on the deep connection to the river and the place.
You've been speaking about, and Mr. Chamberlin as well, the recognition of indigenous law and the recognition of indigenous management in the statute. They are really important things for us to be discussing in the context of these potential legislative changes.
My first question is about what barriers you see to implementing the vision of legal plurality. As you know as someone who comes from the Skeena watershed, fish issues are highly contested, and there's a broad cross-section of society that feels a connection to fish and to the place. We often run into tensions between different perspectives, different world views and different values. What are the current barriers to implementing the legal plurality that you've laid out for the committee today?