Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank both of you for being here today.
I have about seven pages here; this is one of those times when it's almost difficult to know where to start. You're calling this national plan, in very polite terms, a band-aid approach to a very, very serious situation.
From your comments on village-to-village work and work on the ground, it sounds to me as if that's one of the things that you think is a very sore point in this plan, that it's not going anywhere. Also, it sounds like your analysis says there is no strategic direction; you have departments over here, but they don't have anything to coalesce around.
There's another thing that jumped out at me, Ms. Lebert, when you were talking about local resources and extraction companies. You weren't very specific on that. Are we talking about Canadian companies? Because we just had Bill C-300 before the House, which I'm sure you're aware of. It was quite a conversation piece for a number of years and was worked on by a number of people from our party, the NDP. Are there concerns about our extraction companies over there? Is that something you'd feel comfortable talking about?
I have one last question, and it's going to sound right off the wall. Funding for both of you is independent of government, I suspect. No, it's not?