Thank you, Chair.
Chief Bear, it's nice to meet you. Welcome.
Chief Louie, it's good to see you again. It is getting to be a nice habit to have you here.
Welcome to all your colleagues. It's really important that we hear your comments and presentations to help us in our study. It's a really important study. As I was saying earlier to Chief Bear, it is really exciting to see what's happening in terms of development on first nations.
I want to start off by saying that there are some nations, such as Westbank, Chief Louie, who have moved out of first nations lands management and on to more comprehensive self-government arrangements. We have seen some of that.
My question would be: do you see first nations going into first nations lands management as a stepping stone to moving on towards self-government? Or do you see first nations staying in that first nations lands management over the next number of years?