Thank you, Mr. Chair.
There are a couple of different areas I'd like to head into.
First of all, let me thank you for being here, and thank you for the emphasis that I see here in terms of prevention and this front-end mechanism, as you describe it, recognizing and honouring and respecting the healing circles and community sanctions and those kinds of things.
I have a question in that regard. Since we've had this in place for 30 years, would there not be some natural automatic educational components that the first nations would have already been aware of as they saw the Canadian Human Rights Act implemented in the rest of Canada? Recognizing that it was a “temporary stay”, would they not have already been thinking about an educational component and about preparing for this eventuality?
Do you understand where I'm coming from?