Thank you.
I forget what the processes are for parking the vote until we get to protection zones.
While you're thinking about what the answer will be, I do want to say again what I've said about this bill since we started studying it, and that is just to remind all parliamentarians that we got to this state of Bill C-61 because of what was stolen from first nations.
What was stolen from first nations is their authority and jurisdiction to manage and use their right of water through colonialism, through the Indian Act, through all these other pieces of legislation. Bill C-61, as we understand it, is one form of reconciliation where there's an attempt to give back that jurisdiction to first nations. To limit giving that jurisdiction back is just another form of injustice for first nations.
I hope that you consider, with this draft amendment, that in strengthening this bill you're strengthening reconciliation with first nations. For too long, we all know, all past governments have not done enough to invest in their infrastructure; but we also want to make sure that we're creating legislation that respects their authority, that respects their rights, so that we are doing the best we can to give back the jurisdiction that originally belonged to them, as whole as possible, and not in small parts here and there, including protection zones.