Thank you for the question.
Yes, again, I would reiterate that there's been a lot of rhetoric and there's been a lot of misinformation, I think, from the very basic point around the denial of Métis communities existing.
That is a fact within this country. It's a fact certainly within Ontario. In fact, that's the law within Canada. To simply make a statement that Métis communities don't exist or to have the misunderstanding on the impact of this, when clearly it is focused only on our internal governance and there is no impact on any other people is the type of misinformation.... There are many examples of that.
I think it's important to come back to just how important Bill C-53 is. We've been waiting for it for over 200 years. We've been fighting for that recognition of rights. We secured that, in fact, 20 years ago, yet here we are again having to debate with people the question of whether or not we even exist, let alone if we have rights.
We don't want to go backwards. We are looking forward, and particularly we're looking forward to the future for our children.