Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My questions will be for Dr. Palmater.
Kwe, Pam. Me tawulain. Pjila'si. Welcome.
Pam, thank you for joining us today. Your book, Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity, was integral to my understanding and knowledge around indigenous identity and the very question that we talk about of indigenous identity. There's no real consensus on that, because it represents three different groups who all have three different ways of trying to verify who they are: first nations—or status Indians, as we know them—Métis, and Inuit.
The biggest issue we're dealing with is how to verify among these three distinct indigenous groups. I'm wondering if you could tell us how you believe we should be looking at how to verify first nations, Métis and Inuit.
You have about four minutes, so you don't have to rush this. Can you talk about the complexities of the different ways in which we would have to look at how we verify the different groups?