Thank you, Chair. I'll be sharing my time with Mr. Albrecht.
This is a question for Dr. Lafontaine.
Thank you for being with us by video conference. Both you and the witness we heard yesterday, a professor, shared with us a concern about the lack of consultation with indigenous communities. As you are aware, the Supreme Court has required Parliament to create a carefully designed system that imposes strict limits that are scrupulously monitored and enforced. To create a carefully designed system requires consultation, yet we have an extremely tight time frame. Parliament needs to have legislation in place by June 6. This process we're going through right now is eating up approximately a month of that extension, leaving three months to build legislation, which takes approximately another month, and then two months to pass it through the House and the Senate.
How would you suggest that indigenous communities be consulted and be part of the process so that we are respecting and showing that input of and consultation with indigenous communities is important?