Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I thank the witnesses for having stayed for the second hour in order to discuss Bill C-42.
With your permission, I'd like to go back to a question I put to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness concerning the consultations.
The minister mentioned that he had consulted the various police services in first nations communities about his Bill C-42.
Ms. Thompson, perhaps you could shed more light on this for me. Was there an official consultation process that fed into the preparation of Bill C-42?