My comment would echo what Minister Prentice said at the previous committee. What happened in Kelowna in terms of a diagnostic of the issues—bringing all levels of government to the table, bringing the whole federal government around the table to cooperate, the focus on measurable, clear objectives, targets, and reporting—is absolutely a basis on which to go forward. I believe Mr. Prentice said that.
The spirit of rolling up our sleeves and trying to tackle the conditions of first nations and aboriginal peoples is absolutely something to go forward with. I'm not going to get into the semantics of accord or not accord, and who signed what and who's bound by what. There were political undertakings more than legal undertakings. I think everybody has said it's a basis on which to move forward, whether or not it's more in the spirit than the letter of the agreement, and the priorities my minister set out at the aboriginal affairs committee last week are very similar.