Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you very much to our witnesses for appearing today, and to those in the audience here. This is a very important topic. I think we will all look back in the history books and say that we were in this place when these discussions and the conversations were happening around this piece of legislation.
Maybe I'll start first with the last comment made by Vice-President LeClair around that piece on consultation.
As you said, you're doing self-government. This piece of legislation focuses in on Saskatchewan, Ontario and Alberta only, so it doesn't quite trigger consultation. As you pointed out in your opening remarks, the second part does, and that part focuses around the treaty.
To get clarification—and it doesn't matter who answers—when the treaty part happens at some point, which will then trigger the consultation, does it have to come back to Parliament for ratification, or would it be a Governor in Council sign-off? It's something that I want to get confirmation on, because we are getting conflicting reports on it.