Thank you.
I'm delighted that you're here. I appreciate that you are bringing this important lens to our discussions about GBA
On Tuesday night the House of Commons passed a motion that recommended that the government endorse the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. I think you've been very clear here today that Bill C-47, the matrimonial real property legislation, just doesn't provide the remedy that women and communities need. In that debate on Tuesday, the government was very specific that we don't need the UN declaration because we have legislation on matrimonial property rights, and they cited a whole list of things they had done to date in terms of supporting first nations women and first nations communities.
Do the things that the government has done to date in fact approach the same principles as the UN declaration? Are you pleased that Parliament has now passed this motion and indicated that we should move ahead on it?