Thank you very much. I'll keep this brief.
We were very pleased to see the funding. It's a major commitment. It shows a commitment to reconciliation. It's much needed. We just hope that first nations will co-develop it in how it's spent.
Just to follow up on Mr. Yang's comments, Tla'amin is not seeking its own policing board, which is too expensive to set up and administer, but they do want the authority and funding to create solutions.
I just want to mention liability protection. If we only apply funding, first nations are at high risk of liability for operating policing and enforcement without liability protection. The RCMP recently charged an individual on a reserve for trying to evict a trespasser. They charged the first nation representative, not the trespasser, for nuisance, because they thought the first nation rep didn't have the authority.
I think of examples like the First Nations Land Management Act, in which there's a federal framework and legislation that sets out the legal authority and liability protection for the first nations, and then sets the first nation up for success in a legal framework with funding. We also have similar examples on child and family issues. I just want to mention that.
Thank you for the question.