Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I have?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, I'm not content with it, but there it is.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Continue negotiating—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  —with the provinces that certainly want to.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll take his phone call any time he calls me.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I spoke with him on several occasions last week.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You can see where I'm coming from—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I flew in from Saskatoon. I went to a meeting a day early because they didn't want to have me at the official meeting. So I went to the unofficial meeting. Then they refused to put me on the minutes as having existed at the meeting, nor did they want to put on the minutes the exi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I turned him down because he wanted to talk about the legislation, and the legislation—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, and I'd very much like to talk to him about the legislation with the leadership of our co-development partners: the Assembly of First Nations, the ITK and the MNC leadership that was present. Three fine people were present for some of the meetings. We were as accommodating a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm very disappointed they wouldn't meet with me. I'll be blunt. This is what reconciliation looks like. They wrote it with me.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I would simply finalize this. If after 12 months these coordination agreements are not dealt with in good faith, the legislation that has been developed by the indigenous groups will supersede provincial and federal law.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  This is a bill that deals with jurisdictions, not funding. It deals with jurisdictions in a groundbreaking way that has never happened before—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  —on which national organizations—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  —such as the ITK and the Métis National Council and the Assembly of First Nations have worked with us. We followed their lead.