Thank you very much for that.
One of the things that's shocking to me about the bill is this kind of overreaching power of cabinet and ministers. One of the sections I find particularly disturbing—quite disturbing—says, “the Governor in Council may consider any factor that the Governor in Council considers relevant, including the extent to which the project can”, and then it says, “advance the interests of Indigenous peoples”. They list a bunch of things.
What is disturbing about that for me is that they used the same arguments in the creation of residential schools: that it was in the best interests of indigenous peoples. It is colonialism from the 1700s.
The bill in itself is harmful, but would you agree with me that it is particularly disturbing that the Governor in Council, rather than indigenous peoples themselves, has the power to decide what's in the interests of indigenous peoples?