Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
My first question is for Regional Chief Picard.
I thought that your comments that the Quebec government is not ready to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples were peculiar, particularly because the JBNQA uses the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a framework for negotiations. It's something that is currently being used by the local government.
I'm wondering why this has shifted, knowing that certainly we've seen, with the Crees of Eeyou Istchee, that they have signed several agreements over the past 45 years by utilizing the framework.
Why would you come out so strongly against the minimum human rights that have clearly afforded strong relationships in the province?