Yes, that's correct. NWAC has not been consulted on this bill, and we have been waiting quite a long time for this piece of legislation to come forward. I think that it's not what this incredibly high-priority bill says; it's what it doesn't say, and the very concerning precedent that it's setting for the ongoing exclusion of indigenous women, girls, two-spirit, gender-diverse and transgender people against the backdrop of an ongoing genocide.
To answer your question, five years is too long for us to be waiting to be included in this bill. I think it's concerning, again, as President McBride said, that there are three major NIOs listed on this board, and NWAC has been left out, which is quite confusing to NWAC, given the fact that we do, in fact, have an accord with the Government of Canada. Section 1.1 of the accord explicitly honours a commitment to include indigenous women in ongoing conversations, yet we find ourselves left out again. This is a devastating precedent, to say the absolute least, and it feels like another empty and broken promise by the Government of Canada.