Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
I find it very interesting when we talk about self-identification. There was a frontiersman in the northwest United States—Colorado and Wyoming—by the name of Kit Carson. His wife was indigenous. He's in my family tree, but I would never have considered claiming that as self-identification. Yet we have MPs—the member for Edmonton Centre and the member for Nickel Belt—and have a Liberal candidate in Vancouver, who have used this and have been discredited.
We've also heard, from a prior witness, how this has occurred in many other parts of our country and in many different organizations. This is a great risk, in my mind, to your character and to your reputation. What is the attraction? What has the government and their bureaucracy developed in their policies that draws people to want to do this? You've done a lot of research. Why are people doing this?