Brendan Hanley at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

Thank you very much.

Thanks for appearing here, and congratulations, because this is a significant step. You really eloquently described some of the long history in getting to this point.

I'm interested in the impact of negotiating an agreement when there was no pre-existing territory. Coming from the Yukon, I represent a territory where we have 11 modern treaty first nations—11 out of 14—but this is really a different process of reaching an agreement. I wonder if you could talk about the importance or the impact of an agreement and how it differs from a modern treaty.