Thanks for those questions.
To one of your points, like it or not, the federal government has been in the business of working with first nations, Inuit and Métis to define who indigenous peoples are in this country. Our modern treaty process, which was spurred in the 1970s through the Government of Canada-led negotiations protocols or frameworks or guidelines, demanded that we create land use and occupancy studies and that we then negotiate provisions around beneficiary status.
These agreements are shared between Inuit and the Government of Canada. It is the business of the Government of Canada to work with indigenous peoples on creating status, which is why, then, we hold government to account for the negotiations that were concluded and the constitutionally protected agreements we have that include beneficiary status for all Inuit in this country through the four treaty organizations.
We want to lean on all that hard work in the way we undertake how Inuit participate within Canada's economy and in the procurement for federal contracts. Inuit have relations with many different private sector industries. Again, we lean on our modern treaties and our land claim agreements, especially for large-scale natural resource extraction projects, where we—