Thank you, Mr. Chair.
One of the first things I did as a new member of Parliament was to meet with Chief Sayers and his council at Garden River First Nation, outside of Sault Ste. Marie. I spent a couple of hours listening to their concerns in terms of education, economic diversification, development and infrastructure, fishing rights, treaty rights, housing, comprehensive land agreements. I said to myself at that time, my goodness gracious, what can I do as an individual to correct any of that? I'm getting a sense that there actually is a lot I can do collectively. I think that's what this discussion is about today, what we can do collectively. I'm pleased to see that there is much being done, but much more to go.
One of the things we talked about was land agreements. I'm wondering, Mr. Wernick, if you can give me some sense of what is being done to improve the coordination of comprehensive land claims implementation.