Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To the witnesses, I appreciate your being here today.
I understand that work towards creating this bill began about 10 years ago, shortly after the creation of Nunavut as a territory. I think you mentioned in your opening remarks that you certainly felt consulted and felt as though you were able to work with the government on the creation of the bill. That's something I'm sure you're quite pleased with.
I want to get a sense from you as to whether you feel you were closely consulted during the development of the bill. Maybe you could give some evidence of that.