Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate Mr. Neve's testimony thus far. Clearly he has a passion for what are very important issues.
I guess that, coming to this committee, I will only speak from my background, having spent some time within indigenous politics, and I think I would probably frame my questions along those lines. I'm sure you're somewhat aware of our government's achievements in terms of extending the Canadian Human Rights Act to first nations people. I'm not sure how familiar you are, but for about 30 years, ever since the Human Rights Act was brought into Canada, the first nations reservations were actually human-rights-free zones. Many governments attempted to bring forward this extension of the Canadian Human Rights Act to first nations communities, and thankfully we were able to achieve that last year.
Of course, right now we continue our work towards extending matrimonial property rights to first nations communities, and specifically to women. These are important areas that I think we would both agree need to continue to have diligent efforts put towards them.
You did raise, obviously, a concern in relation to Canada's decision not to sign on to the declaration of indigenous rights. I just want to speak to that for a moment. I imagine you're pretty familiar with the declaration in terms of a number of its clauses. Are you familiar with article 26?