Thank you, Chair.
I am coming probably to you, Mr. Browne, but of course, Mr. Yang, always....
One of the things I find so fascinating about this conversation is that I would love to see a government that saw this as an opportunity for decolonization. When we hit systemic racism, the reaction is, “Oh, there it is. Let's peel that back and figure it out. It's not personal.” This is not about people personally being bad. It's about a system that has been here for a long time. When a nation's leadership is calling 911 and hoping for the best, all of us should see that it is systemic racism.
I know that the Public Prosecution Service of Canada only enforced COVID bylaws under the Indian Act, not laws under the land code or treaty. You guys used the K'ómoks case as an example.
I'm just wondering if you could talk about what it means for a nation trying to do its work. I remember that Hegus Rempel said in her testimony that she was having another case like this in K'ómoks. The person she was dealing with was laughing at her as she was trying to enforce this in her community.
Can you talk about what this does to leadership and what it does for community building when this systemic racism is continuing through this process?