Thank you very much for that question.
I spent a lot of time during COVID reflecting on what my elder leaders talked about. They talked about these very issues in the 1910s of the last century, and what they talked about was having a proper land base and access to all of the resources so we could share in the bounty of this land.
I also started to do research, as I mentioned in my presentation, particularly around an individual by the name of Duncan Campbell Scott. He's the individual who amended the Indian Act to take away our power and ability to have tax jurisdiction, and that fundamentally affected us to the extent that we're still dependent on the federal government for transfers for programs. Up until that point, we were independent; we had tax jurisdictions within our traditional territories here in British Columbia, and that fundamentally changed us from an independent nation to a dependent nation.
Thank you very much for that question.