Good morning.
The Anishinabek Nation has been involved in the question of citizenship for many years. Our commissioner is Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, who was the original plaintiff for the paragraph 12(1)(b) case back in the 1970s.
From that time on, the Anishinabek Nation has always been involved in citizenship. More recently, we have participated in the collaborative process, because we felt it was important to make sure that our voices were there. We've done a lot of research. We've done a lot of work in communities on the other work that needs to be done by communities.
This is not something new for us. It's always been our responsibility to take care of our families and to take care of our children—our future generations. When it comes to any kind of legislation that's coming forward, implementation is our responsibility. It's up to our communities to do that.
We have been working alongside our communities for many years in looking at how membership would work in each nation. When we looked at the work that's going forward in the collaborative process, we made sure that we were there, that our voices were heard, because the work we have been doing has been ongoing for so long, and there's a history that we bring to the table.
One example was that I recently attended a meeting with—