Thank you, Chair, and thank you for your indulgence.
We have a definition that's been put forward by the NDP—and Mr. Motz put one forward that was similar—which came through a number of organizations. I really would like to get clarity on this wording of “Indigenous community”.
I know that when we were drafting the bill.... I've had a number of discussions with the department as well to come up with wording that will allow organizations to be able to enter into agreements with the government while also respecting that we want these to be indigenous organizations. We don't want someone to hang up a shingle, throw their name on it and be able to run a healing lodge, for example. It needs to truly be an indigenous organization, and it's a challenge.
Because there are ramifications with regard to other bills and to other things the government is doing that we may or may not be aware of, what are the implications of changing the wording that we have in the bill now to “indigenous community”?