Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Chartrand, I'm very pleased to see you here, particularly given this week's “celebration” of the 140th anniversary of Louis Riel's death by hanging. It's an interesting context we find ourselves in. We're talking about indigenous policing, about different approaches to law enforcement and about how the colonial system has imposed its own laws and its own regime, especially on the Métis. This has had a huge impact on your community, your development and your nation.
Do current federal programs accurately reflect, in your view, the distinct legal recognition of the Métis nation? Are Métis communities still treated as an afterthought in funding models designed primarily for first nations and Inuit? The first nations and Inuit policing program does not even include the word “Métis”. Why?