Thank you. That's an excellent question.
In recommending what we did with respect to consultation, we really took to heart the advice provided to us by our three members of indigenous identity. While they believe that there are many members of indigenous communities who are supportive of MAID and who, as individuals, may wish in the future to either access MAID or support their family members in accessing MAID, they also recognize that it is important that these consultations occur. This is something they've been expecting, in fact, since MAID was first permitted, and it ought to be made good on.
What are the best mechanisms to achieve that? Where we landed was that this ought to happen at a provincial level, perhaps with the collaboration and leadership of the federal government. Because the communities are very different, having a single kind of indigenous, pan-Canadian consultation wouldn't necessarily work or reflect the important differences and nuances between the many indigenous communities that are out there.
Whether it can be done in a way that would respect the March deadline, I think it's for those communities to express themselves on that.