Thank you very much.
My question is for Minister Anandasangaree. He's done a very good job in talking to indigenous communities across Canada about some of the barriers that they feel have kept their communities from doing as well as others.
You have the ability to talk to chiefs about the policies that were created by Canada that have kept them from succeeding. You've talked to communities who've had long-standing aboriginal and treaty rights claims that haven't been honoured. You've attempted to right these wrongs. You've had many communities talk to you about systemic problems within the justice system and about other things, like clean water, that prevent communities from doing well economically.
How often, Minister, do you have indigenous communities come to you and say, “We really don't know who we are, and we think that we need your government to study who we are and determine for us who should and shouldn't be given eligibility for projects”?