Okay. Thank you.
As you know, we've been left out of the treaties since they started to be signed in our territory in 1899, with another one in 1921. Up until then, the first nations had been fully funded. The Métis Nation has never received funding of any sort, and we've been left out of the treaties. We've been negotiating our land claim ever since 1996. We were part of the Dene Métis before that, before it failed in 1990. Due to that, we haven't had any opportunities economically or anything like that so we could get on with business and take our place in our country. We have no land and we have no funding coming in for the resources that have been taken out of our territory, so it is important for reconciliation to finalize our land claims so that we can get our land and cash transfer, be recognized as a government with authority over our land and get into economic development, which includes joint ventures and so on.