Thank you, Chair.
I appreciate the comments by my colleague Michelle Rempel Garner. I couldn't have said it better myself. Michelle has come to this committee, for what I believe is the first time, as we are studying this bill, and in this one meeting she has recognized the amount of division this government has caused with this bill. It's truly unfortunate, especially given the extra time they had to work on this bill. For how many months had they promised to table this bill, and it was tabled only at the last second before we recessed in June.
It's extremely frustrating. They should have done their homework but they didn't, and because of that we have a bill in which indigenous groups are against indigenous groups. That's truly unfortunate.
That being said, we do recognize the comments from the stakeholders. We do recognize their feelings on this amendment, and we accept those as they were brought to our attention.
I move that we withdraw this amendment.