I appreciate that. It's hard to ask a 30-second question too, but I do have just a short time.
I'm going to be honest with you. I promised the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan at the very first hearing that I would ask the minister why this took so long, so I want to frame it for you a little bit. If you think about this process, I get that they're going to tell me it started decades ago, but officially this process started in 2018, and there was a 2019 kind of draft agreement. We went on to some amendments and updates, and then in February 2023 there was a new updated agreement.
This legislation was promised to be tabled in April; then it was June; then it was Monday; then it was Wednesday, and finally it was Friday. There have been a substantial number of delays for reasons that nobody has been able to get answers to.
As the minister responsible for this piece of legislation, can you clarify for this committee why there have been all the delays and what took so long? What was going on at the time that left us at the point that this was tabled on the very last day before we rose for the summer?