Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  With certainty I can say, on the ground, no. I think we're still looking at how the full measure of the languages act is going to be rolled out and implemented. There's ongoing dialogue from centralized groups like the AFN, the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, etc., Inuvialuit, Inuit, our groups.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Merci. Mahsi cho. You covered a lot of ground in your questions and observations, and I thank you for them. Many of our people think there are many parallels between the francophone language and our indigenous languages. However, our observation here has been that over the course of the last 100 years, there have been mostly deliberate colonial practices and policies that were designed to weed out our language and weed out our practices.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can't speak for all 24 self-governing indigenous governments. They span from the north to the south and across the country under different provincial and territorial jurisdictions. I can say from a Yukon context, and I would say as a more boilerplate observation, that at least in my community and in this territory, we firmly believe that we need greater community delivery of programs and services.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the opportunity. I will speak quickly. We want to leave plenty of time for questions. I'm very fortunately with one of the 24 self-governing indigenous governments that have been working over the last two years on a model under the collaborative fiscal process with Canada that we've been working on since 2017.