I just wanted to say that, yes, you inherited your status, in terms of your sovereignty, all your inherent rights by sector, like I mentioned earlier, and your inherent title. The Métis nation has all that, but you're not implementing them.
It's the responsibility of the Métis, individually and collectively, to come together on how you implement them under your jurisdiction and law. You have to elevate your agenda from an administrative agenda to a political agenda that deals with your political relations, treaty relations, judicial relations, economic relations, fiscal relations and international relations, along with your inherent rights, treaties and treaty rights relations. That's the agenda you need, politically, for the questions you're asking because you need political answers not administrative, technical answers from the courts or from bureaucrats. You need to resolve that politically between your governments, the Métis nation and the federal government, and between the Indian nations and their governments.
Technically, in terms of the title to land and the resources of Indian nations, today, we occupy only 2% of the lands in Canada. Who are we sharing all the rest of the land and resources with? If we can't help the Métis get their fair share of land and resources in Canada, there's something wrong with us. They're entitled to it.
It's time we talked about it politically, and that agenda has to be addressed politically.