I think that it's one thing to attend the Permanent Forum or the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to hear voices from around the world, especially those from Canada. However, what's lacking is an implementation follow-up mechanism.
Yes, it's great. In fact, I was there yesterday. I just came from the United Nations last night to be here. What is missing is opportunities like this. There is no committee, for example, directly on the international obligations of Canada with respect to indigenous peoples here in the House of Commons or in the Senate. It would be very important, I think, to have your committee, for example, have a standing agenda item on follow-up to the UN discussions, follow-up to the UN recommendations or advice to the Human Rights Council, for example, just last week in Geneva.
I think it's important. If you want to engage the UN declaration in Bill C-61, those discussions would help us collectively if there were a mechanism like this one this morning to share information and exchange proposals or ideas to ensure that we're working together going forward—indigenous, non-indigenous—regarding treaty relations—