Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members. We are very pleased to appear before this committee today on behalf of the Canadian Bar Association. We represent over 37,000 members across Canada. The statement that you have received from us was prepared by the aboriginal law section, which includes lawyers from across Canada with expertise in all areas of aboriginal law.
On the areas of the bill relating to sections 42 to 47, we have also received input from our wills and estates law section.
One of the objectives of the Canadian Bar Association is improvement in the law and improvement in the administration of justice. It's through that lens that we have examined Bill C-428.
With that, I'm going to ask Mr. Devlin to go into the specifics of the points that you have in front of you in the submission.