Mr. Clément Chartier at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

From the perspective of the Métis nation, it really could not have worked in any other manner. We have a national government. We have five—for your sake—provincial governments; we call them “governing members”. We have our institutions in place.

We were fully engaged, at all levels, in dealing with this process with the federal government in recognition of section 35 and, of course, the right of self-determination, including the inherent right of self-government .