Thank you very much.
As my colleagues on this side have said, I think we agree with you totally that this bill should just be withdrawn and that we should proceed with a proper process for replacing the Indian Act.
Seeing that you're here with us and somehow the government has decided to support what you have called a paternalistic act to replace the paternalistic Indian Act, it gets in the way of moving forward in a meaningful way to begin that consultation and the real work that needs to be done.
You, with 8th Fire, have done amazing work in trying to get indigenous issues on the radar of the 96% of Canadians who aren't from an indigenous background. I was grateful for your description of the kind of process that it would take with first nations, but I wonder if you have thought about how you would advise the crown to also begin the process of educating those 96% of Canadians about the need to get rid of the Indian Act and get rid of it now, in terms of what they see and what you've described with Chandler and Lalonde. How do we get there? As you know, political will comes when all the people of Canada say to the government to get on with this now, please.
How do we do a better job explaining that this isn't an Indian problem, that this is a Canadian problem and that we need all Canadians to be onside to increase the political will of a government to get on with it and do the job?