Thank you, Chief Louie.
It's an honour to be here.
Maybe I could speak to the question that the honourable member and the parliamentary secretary raised regarding modernization and provide some reflection on what we're doing in terms of land management and the utility or usefulness of the proposed modernization study. For the first nations that are involved in the land management initiative, we have modernized in terms of what we're doing to create land tenure systems in our communities by building capacity in our communities and creating economic development opportunities.
Going back to previous questions about the investment or about how government can contribute toward our success stories, it's an investment for the government to provide the necessary resources for our communities to ensure the operation of communities, to ensure that we are continuing to move forward with instituting our laws and making decisions that are locally based, based upon the priorities of our communities. That's the beauty of this initiative. Our communities have decision-making authority and jurisdiction over what we're doing and how we want to develop our land.
If it's a land use modernization study that looks at the options available right now and at the implications of all the different options and the spectrum that exists—because there are a number of ways that first nations are raising title or undertaking land tenure systems in our communities—if that's the intention behind the study, rather than to reinvent the wheel of what's already created but to support the successes that our communities are having and to provide that information readily to other communities, then I think such an endeavour or information-sharing exercise would be entirely useful. To draw upon the experience of our chiefs here in the room, to hear their stories and build on the success that our communities have had in this area would be hugely valuable for us.