With our counterparts in the United States, the National Congress of American Indians, I went down and made a presentation to the chiefs and they passed a resolution to support the inclusion of an indigenous peoples chapter within NAFTA 2, the USMCA. That was brought to the table through negotiators. Even meeting with the vice-president, and even a year ago when the negotiators were meeting, the U.S. negotiators weren't aware of the NCAI resolution to support. Our negotiators from Canada said they just happened to have the evidence that they do support it. A resolution was passed. We've included that portion. We went down there, as the AFN, to make that presentation. It was a little more challenging with the indigenous peoples in Mexico. It's not as organized or unified. We haven't done that piece of work, but there is definitely support from the indigenous tribes on the United States side for this USMCA, and it's done via a resolution.
On June 18th, 2019. See this statement in context.