Thank you so much for being here today. I am truly saddened that it has taken this long to have first nations people at the table on this trade deal and other trade deals that we have entered into in the past 10 years.
I deeply respect your rights to self-governance and to your self-determination. I think it's clear that the TPP could threaten or limit our future options for building an honourable and respectful relationship with treaty partners. To me it looks like a direct challenge to reconciliation and to putting into effect the recommendations that came out of the TRC.
I wonder if you could speak to the ways that you see that the TPP could threaten that.