Thank you.
It's highly important. As we look at this and we explore these with our nations and with the federal government right now, we're making great recommendations. The recommendations are coming from community members through extensive engagement approaches and opportunities for members from diverse backgrounds to speak to some of the challenges that they've faced within the existing laws at the federal level. Let's focus there.
From there, indigenous people and those I have had an opportunity to speak to have felt that some consistent policy areas are meant to discriminate and that those policies are meant to hold them back. In doing so, they have failed to give them an opportunity to really take on, let's say, an economic development role within their nation, or really build on the education or build on the languages that are from their nation that should be passed on from their elders.
The larger thing as well is that we have done a great first step, of course, in engaging the indigenous peoples and having them work with their partners to make significant recommendations.
I think another component is that as we work to ensure that our indigenous peoples have a fair and equitable approach in the larger justice system at the federal level and the provincial level, they are not being labelled as something that will further prevent them from seeking employment in large projects that are typically in partnership with their nations or within their region.
As we look to understand how UNDRIP can meaningfully impact indigenous peoples within Canada and the scope within their respective regions, I think it's important that the federal government continue to move forward on these significant changes and significant opportunities for nations to speak their truth and to speak to the need to ensure that their knowledge is being respected, that their cultures are being respected, and that they are able to practise those traditional ceremonies.
I can't speak too much on psilocybin, but we need to ensure that our indigenous people have access to the traditional medicines that they can afford and that they can leverage their trapping lines.
I think the federal government has taken a great first step, but I also think we need to make sure that we're pulling in the provincial government, that we're pulling in those municipalities to ensure that we're all walking in step together while being led by our indigenous partners to support what can be and what will, hopefully, be one day.