Thank you to all of you for your presentations today.
I'll start off with you, Mr. Rae. I'm familiar with mining in northwestern Ontario. That's the area of the country I come from. My mom is Ojibwa and my father is Ukrainian. I've been involved with first nation organizations in that area of the country for quite a while. First nations dealing with mining companies in the far north hasn't been a positive experience to date.
How would you suggest the federal government get involved and hopefully help smooth out some of those trouble areas? I'm not meaning to insult my friends from the department, but I've been hearing that a lot of first nations are very frustrated dealing with INAC. Would there be any other mechanism or department within the federal government to deal with these issues?