My role as Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations is to advocate, both within government and also outside, to ensure that indigenous people are able to self-determine and set up their own structures, and also to advocate on their behalf toward structural challenges and limitations that may exist within the Canadian state. I look forward to that conversation and to be able to support and work with you, as well as the business that you're talking about, to be able to obtain the requisite exemptions and recognition that may be required for them to be able to trade with the U.S., for example, or other markets.
On March 20th, 2024. See this statement in context.