Information & Ethics committee  Sure. There are hundreds of nations across the country. To pick and choose a few to be granted these rights or given the ability and time to develop their own internal access to information processes, so they have a chance to work these into different agreements with the federa

Information & Ethics committee  No, I'm sorry. Go ahead.

Information & Ethics committee  Current federal legislation—and provincial legislation, for that matter—doesn't incorporate those principles in any way. There have been discussions with the First Nations Information Governance Centre around trying to make those changes to federal legislation. These are change

Information & Ethics committee  Kukpi7, do you want to answer that?

Information & Ethics committee  The only thing I'll add, just very quickly, is to echo what Mr. Barnes was saying about access to historical documents. In particular, Crown-Indigenous Relations has told us that their policy is not to transfer historical records. I'm talking about records that are over 100 year

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. It's a complicated question, because one thing that's really important, especially under the UN declaration, is recognizing indigenous rights to data sovereignty when it comes to developing a process whereby first nations would be able to obtain their own information,