Thank you for the presentations. It's a very interesting discussion, and I see a number of arguments and a number of positions being put forward that I hear in my own riding in the Northwest Territories. There are many of our aboriginal governments—and we have six—that are very clear that nobody speaks for them, and they don't fall under any national organization. They speak for themselves. They represent themselves. Of course, that causes challenges sometimes, because governments want to talk to the AFN or Métis National Council, and none of my organizations, except the Inuvialuit, falls under one of the national bodies.
I'm trying to follow what everybody is saying. I recognize, and we've heard it before, that being recognized as a status Indian does not automatically make you part of the community or a citizen of a nation. I'm trying to follow on some of the other pieces of legislation that came before.
I want to ask Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer and Chief Norton about how you handled Bill C-31, recognizing there was a number of people who got status then. Were they accepted? Or were they not accepted because they didn't meet your membership code?