With respect, I'm not in your position. Were I to be in the perfect world, yes, I think under the duty to consult that inherently our section 35 rights for the historic communities, should they meet that threshold, should be acknowledged. That would be a simple amendment, in my view, inside this bill. I think that could replace pieces of clause 8 that recognize at least the Métis Nation of Alberta—I won't speak for the other provinces—as the affiliate that represents our collective rights within Alberta. I think that needs to be simple and that the recognition at the historic community level needs to be in there, because that's where our section 35 rights are. I think we could work with this bill if that were a starting point.
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