Thank you, Chair.
This is another amendment proposed by the Six Nations of the Grand River. It follows the amendment proposed for section 30, as well as that from section 26, to remove “best efforts”.
Expecting the ruling that you are about to make on this, similar to what you did on section 30, I'll just say that Six Nations has shared that the best efforts of the Government of Canada have failed first nations for decades. This is why they are particularly strong in their calls to adapt the language to remove “best efforts” and replace it with “must provide funding that is adequate, predictable, stable”, and the rest of the text that is already in the bill.