Thank you for that.
I'll switch gears a little bit, but you just touched on it again, National Chief, as you did at the beginning of your statement: the context of the fires currently raging across much of central Canada, much of the Prairies, and the context of the climate crisis that we are living in. There is an urgency around some of the shift towards a cleaner energy economy and trying to remove some of the sources of our contributions to degrading the natural environment.
In that context, combined with the context that you noted about the ongoing lack of critical infrastructure in many first nations communities—the desperate need for continued investment in housing, schooling and other essential services in many parts of this country—could you speak to how either you or the chiefs that you work so closely with feel about the possibility that projects of national importance, as outlined in this bill, might be a way of accelerating the pace at which we can address those challenges?
Separate from the questions around consultation that you very clearly spoke to, could you address whether the projects themselves might be a means by which we could accelerate the rate at which those challenges for indigenous communities are addressed?