Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, all, for your presentations. I agree, I wish we had so much more time to have these discussions, but your input is being heard. Certainly it will all come into consideration as we do our work as a committee.
As a committee, one of the things we have an option to do is to bring forward amendments. You've proposed a number of them today. I would ask that you prepare them appropriately and have them submitted to our committee, to the federal minister, and to your current government. I think it's important that your input be acknowledged not only at this committee but in the full process of what we have to do in the next few weeks.
I found the discussion very interesting around especially the Internet and the connectivity, because I think the whole north suffers from un-connectivity. I live in an area where I can't even get connected to the Internet any longer, because we're out. I think as long as northerners are disconnected through technology, we're going to be disconnected in many other ways. I think that has to be fixed. But that is a whole different committee and a whole different discussion, for sure.
One of the things you talked about was the loss of trust between government and first nations. You are here today representing chambers of commerce, mining chambers, the labour federation, and so on. You have a very different view, I guess, from what aboriginal governments would have, but yet you're expressing a lot of concern with regard to this bill.
My question comes right down to the fundamentals of it. Are you prepared to support the devolution bill as it exists today, in the Parliament of Canada, if no amendments are forthcoming to that legislation?
It's a big question, I know, but we need to know where you stand.