Thank you.
Regional Chief, I think that you have done a great job of showing the complexity and the general inequalities that are out there when we look at trying to determine who is indigenous. This committee is tasked with trying to figure out how we improve indigenous procurement, but at the end of the day it falls back to who is applying.
The Conservatives believe that this is a simple process that should have a simple solution. However, across Canada, whether it's academia, whether it's business, whether it's the music industry, there are those who have benefited unfairly because of the question of who is indigenous and who is determining who is indigenous.
You mentioned that you have a committee, FNPO, that is looking at this. Do you have best practices or a working document that you'd be able to share with this committee on what your views are on how to determine indigeneity in a fair way?
Further to that, if you don't, do you know of anyone across this country who has done this in a way that would be helpful to government in figuring out this question of how we, as a primarily non-indigenous entity, determine for indigenous people who and who isn't part of them?