Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I certainly did express my personal concern and, on behalf of Conservatives, respect for the witnesses who are here today. Because of our extended hours, I'm grateful for their accommodation too, because, of course, this initiative is important to every single Canadian in every community right across Canada.
It would allow the discussion to proceed more efficiently with fewer of those interruptions. I will go back to briefing committee members and all Canadians about what happened on February 8, and why the Honourable Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada's common-sense Conservatives, took this initiative to enable first nations to take back control of their resource revenues from big government gatekeepers—