Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, MP Battiste. You've touched on something that I think is essentially very sensitive and a legacy of a colonial system that was designed to divide people into categories of indigenous and non-indigenous. The challenge is that, of course, those definitions evolve.
You mentioned a second-generation cut-off, and you would know, as one of the MPs heavily invested in the study that's going on right now, that even the issue of the second-generation cut-off is a sensitive issue for the families impacted but also for the communities impacted.
There is criteria for inclusion on the indigenous business directory. I can read it out here, but I'm sure you already understand that as part of your study right now.
We are working with first nations partners and business partners, in particular the NACCA, the CCIB, ITK, the Métis Nation and various different Métis nations that are not part of the Métis Nation of Canada. These are the commitments we've made as a government to continue to have these complicated conversations with indigenous people as they define for themselves their memberships. I think it is an important conversation for indigenous people to have, but it's also important for Canadians to understand that it isn't as clear-cut as some would like to think or some would like to have it be, quite clearly.