Electoral Reform committee  Hello there. Good afternoon, everyone. Here we are about 400 years into the colonization of Canada and we've never looked back and our history books say nothing about the first nation democracy that was here. It was a form of combined economic democracy, and it was a form that

Electoral Reform committee  Yes, pretty good. But colonialism came with violence—

Electoral Reform committee  —the genocide of 100 million people in the Americas, as well as 100 million people in Africa, 100 million people in the Far East, 100 million people in the Middle East, and about 100 million in the last century.

Electoral Reform committee  The violence has removed us. We're in a climate of fear. We're in a climate of hierarchy and fear and oligarchical control. Who owns our media—

Electoral Reform committee  Hold on. Let me finish just one point. Who owns our media? Who owns our finance? We have very centralized oligarchical control. We do not have a democracy.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes.

Electoral Reform committee  The last word I would just say is, before we go ahead, we should be turning to first nations and asking, what is sovereignty here? What is democracy here? Thank you.