Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses for appearing today.
My questions will be for Dean Gladue.
We've known each other for many years, Dean, and I've always know you to be a difference maker, first as a hockey player inspiring young kids from Chetwynd back in the day, then as an RCMP officer and now as a regional director for the Métis Nation British Columbia.
You said something to me that really stuck with me many years ago: “Blessed are the peacemakers”. I see your continuing with that call in your life today, in Ottawa this time. We've had conversations about what being Métis means to you. What I want to ask you about, for the sake of the committee, is this: What does it mean for you to be Métis and to be respected and recognized as Métis?
Go ahead, Dean.