Thank you.
That's a very important observation, actually, because when we traditionally think of indigenous knowledge-keepers, sometimes we don't think about the vast ambit of knowledge they contain. The fact that it can even apply to something as commercial as the trade committee, in terms of how we're engaging with hemispheric trade or continental free trade, is a critical point.
I personally think that no matter how “complicated” it is, to use Mr. Warner's word, that doesn't really matter when you're trying to advance reconciliation. I would add that it helps to further the goals of UNDRIP, which is also an initiative that was enacted under our government's watch.
Thank you, Mr. Balisky.
Mr. Lee, I want to turn to you. This has come up in your testimony and in the testimony of some of the others. You provided us with a little list, and I stopped it at six, but you may have had more. When you indicated some of the things you were seeking, you said to swiftly deal with transportation disruptions.
Obviously, we saw a transportation disruption that was quite cataclysmic about six or seven weeks ago, when we had blockaders illegally stopping the flow of cross-border traffic at places like Windsor, Emerson, Coutts and Surrey. Please comment on that and how it impacts things such as the B.C. lumber industry, for example, when you're blocking the Surrey border, and the speed with which that was dismantled under the Emergencies Act.
Thanks, Mr. Lee.