Thank you, Mr. Chair. I gladly move this amendment, reference 12050033.
This amendment will amend paragraph 12(c) to read:
of the Department of Indigenous Services Act, to reflect the diversity of arrangements that govern relationships between Indigenous communities and the Government of Canada;
Just to give some background of why I believe this is important, indigenous governments are not homogeneous right across the country. I believe it's important to have this in there so that there are considerations to include indigenous governments that will reflect the diversity that we have across the country, whether that's self-governing nations, whether that's historical treaty first nations, whether that's modern treaty or whether there's no treaty at all.
Because the key part of reconciliation is the process to move ahead on self-determination, I think it's very important that the council have that broad diversity of indigenous government representation on it.