Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for being here today. It is much appreciated. I know you have a busy schedule, and it's early in the morning.
Minister, you and your government have often referred to a renewed nation-to-nation relationship with indigenous people. I know that right on the party platform web page one of the buttons refers to “a new nation-to-nation” relationship.
However, I put in an Order Paper question to your department, and they couldn't say what this nation-to-nation relationship was because, in their words, “Indigenous and Northern Affairs...does not define who is a nation.”
How are you supposed to have a renewed nation-to-nation relationship if you don't know who they are?