Thank you, National Chief. That was a great overview and refresher. It's really important information to start our committee's first formal meeting.
I want to focus on a specific area that I think is important to all of Canada but also to the communities you represent. This is the area of natural resources development. I want to pick up on your suggestion regarding the indigenous licence, but I also want to ask you to frame it. I'll look at, for example, Kinder Morgan. It goes through the interior of British Columbia, and there is great desire in some quarters for this project to move ahead. If there was a process in place, I think there would be great enthusiasm. Of course, it hits the coast and I think it would be an understatement to say that in that area the enthusiasm diminishes sharply. I would like you to expand on the concept you talked about, with some emphasis on how it relates to varying opinions. I think there are many examples. How do you create an indigenous licence when lots of people are very enthusiastic and others are much less so?