Thank you very much, through you, Mr. Chair.
Let's begin with the displacement of indigenous people, and why indigenous people are in such risky situations to begin with. In fact, it was a process of colonization that moved indigenous people from the most viable land to places where most people would not be able to survive, oftentimes. There are extreme examples of displacement. There are many people in flood plains, areas prone to forest fires and burning, and remote locations that are all increasingly threatened by climate change—including, by the way, in the north, as I'm sure your colleague, Ms. Idlout, could attest to. The warming of the climate in northern locations is increasingly jeopardizing communities. That's a product and result of colonization.
I will also say this: It isn't the colonizer who knows the solutions. We have to be there as a viable partner with the appropriate resources and mechanisms that might even include—that do include—the co-development of legislation. We have to be there as a listening partner in order to understand how best to support communities as they do this hard work themselves. It is a sad reality of colonization that the colonizer will never know what the answer is to decolonize. However, we have a responsibility to be there, as a partner, with enabling tools that will help communities do that work.