Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for coming today.
I was privileged to be at the press conference when the minister and the chief of the Assembly of First Nations were here, and they stood shoulder to shoulder committed to working to address this unacceptable level of backlogs of roughly 800 specific claims. So I think we're all committed to moving ahead, as your brief indicates.
It's my understanding that the AFN was charged with the responsibility of at least entering into...if not consultation, at least having discussions with first nations groups across Canada. I wonder if you could do two things: first, describe for me the process of discussion that took place in that period between June and now, or especially between June and November when the bill was released; and second, which groups are you representing from Quebec? Does the AFNQL represent all first nations groups, the Inuit and the Council of Cree? Which groups are represented?