Thank you.
I can share my own personal experience in dealing with the four working groups under the development of the pan-Canadian strategy on combatting climate change.
One of the challenges for the Métis National Council in not sitting on those working groups was that we were always behind. We were attending meetings, but we didn't have full information. We received as full information as we could possibly get, but we were always two to four weeks behind. Particularly when some of these processes are foreshortened in order to meet set timelines and to be responsive in meeting the government's commitments, I think that every opportunity to have as much information as possible to make effective and responsible decisions is important, so that when our Métis government is trying to make decisions, they're in the same place as this government.
It wants to be adequately informed and have an appropriate time to follow its own internal processes to ensure that the decisions and input it's providing are both transparent and supportable and appropriate to addressing the issue being discussed.
Thank you.