Thank you very much for your testimony.
We've heard from a plethora of good, learned witnesses that the status quo is no longer acceptable and that we really need to move past the second generation cut-off. What I've heard from both of you, though, is that Bill S-2, as it is currently written, is a partial fix, but it's not respectful and true to article 33 of UNDRIP that says nations should decide who their membership is. My belief has always been, as a Mi'kmaq person, that Ottawa has no business in determining who members of communities are.
Do you guys share the view that Bill S-2, as currently written, is a partial fix and that it's good to get rid of the status quo, but it does not really return membership and status in communities to the communities themselves and to the nations that are self-determining? Give short answers, please.
Drew, you can start.