Thank you.
Earlier we heard powerful testimony from Pam Palmater about the surveillance she has been a target of. We are also aware of other indigenous activists who have been targeted. We also know of Cindy Blackstock, a social worker who has put forward a case to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal about the underfunding of child welfare for first nations children in our country. We know that she has been under surveillance by government departments. There is a long list of very recent examples of surveillance, including one uncovered in 2013 showing that the National Energy Board was working with CSIS and the RCMP monitoring activist groups ahead of the Northern Gateway pipeline hearings.
Grand Chief Phillip, should we all be very concerned as Canadians about what this bill would mean in terms of exacerbating the kind of surveillance of first nations people that already exists?