Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Chief Ted, for your opening prayer. Thank you, National Chief Woodhouse Nepinak, for being here, and thank you to all of the witnesses.
I'm certainly proud to work with the indigenous communities in Treaty 6. The issues that you talked about at the beginning that you would like to see fast-tracked do align with the leaders of the five first nations and four Métis settlements that I work with there.
You noted that your first opportunity to have a technical briefing on the bill was yesterday, and you did touch on this. I wonder if you would expand on your concerns about the ability of a cabinet to temporarily override provisions of the Indian Act, or others you want to touch on, through regulation without consultation with or consent from first nations.