Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the chiefs, Mr. Snow, and Mr. Rae for coming before the committee. I think it's important that you are here in person to talk about the issues that you think need to be raised in the context of this particular piece of legislation.
I want to touch on two things. If I have time, I'll come back to a third question.
In your proposed amendments, you talk about the differences between the Canada Petroleum Resources Act and what is included in the bill. I think it's an unfortunate statement that the Government of Canada looks at royalties for itself in one way, and then treats first nations completely differently.
This is one proposed amendment: “5.2 (1) The Minister may, at any time, assess the royalty, interest or penalties”, and so on. I wonder if you could just briefly touch on the difference between the CPRA and what is proposed in Bill C-5. I don't know, it may be technical; keep it simple for us non-lawyers.