Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to all of our panellists here, our committee presenters.
In my home province of Manitoba, Manitoba Hydro, with its Keeyask dam project, its generating station there, has worked very well with four separate indigenous communities.
You talked about the diversity among indigenous communities, Mr. Perera. Mr. Newman has also mentioned that there's not the same cohesiveness as in the Sami community in Norway, from what we've learned about at the committee. I appreciate that.
I'm going to focus my questions on you, Mr. Newman. When you have all these different communities on a major project.... You're from Saskatchewan, where I think there are seven or eight indigenous communities involved as partners in a large mining operation there. Who makes these decisions? Does every community make them? Is it the individual chiefs? Is it the band members or council members? How is it determined that they come together to form partnerships?