Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
It's interesting that, after nine years, if it were so important to him to appoint an ambassador for the north why it took him nine years to do it.
For Pure Spirit Solutions, you had 112 contracts in 2024. That's quite a few.
I would really like to address my questions to Leah Ballantyne.
We have an MP from Edmonton who has been discredited for his claim of being Métis. We have another one, the member for Nickel Belt, who has used it, but the Algonquins of Ontario have discredited him. We also have a Liberal candidate in Vancouver running for election, who claimed it and was discredited.
Why would people risk their political reputation? What are they doing to claim this indigenous status? Why? I know that you're researching this and that you do this. This is what you do.