Thank you for the question. It's great to see you as well, Adam.
I can't help but think right away about the link between free, prior and informed consent and education or language. It isn't just natural resource extraction that we're talking about and which indigenous peoples have the right to.
Think about how in this country there are places where there is a society with a dominant language that is not English or French, with land claim agreements and with relationships with the Government of Canada, but no recognition of Inuktitut, our language, as an official language of our homeland by the federal government. We're not talking about a few people here and there who have somehow managed to maintain an indigenous language. We're talking about entire regions of Inuit Nunangat whose dominant language is Inuktitut: the language on the streets, the language in the house.
This country still does not recognize and do what it has to in order to uphold our linguistic rights in the education context, the workplace context and the administration of services. These are the types of things that over time the UNDRIP legislation, hopefully, will allow us to address more substantially than we have in the past. We went through five years of indigenous language legislation conversations, and ultimately Canada could not find a way to figure out how to uphold our indigenous linguistic rights in our homeland.
This type of legislation will allow for a greater foundation to have those conversations and to demand, especially at the federal level, that the recognition of our existing human rights include the recognition of our rights to use our language in our communities and also in the way in which we interact with the federal government.