Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon, Minister Strahl. It's good to see you here.
Again, this is one example of a collaborative approach taken by your government—one example, I would emphasize. I don't know if there are others. I would only suggest that if we had done this with the repeal of section 67 of the Canadian Human Right Act, we wouldn't have had such a protracted debate on that particular piece of legislation. So I would encourage more of this approach.
I just want to ask a question. You say that land is not involved, but when a first nation comes forward with a grievance of some sort, isn't the land one of the contentious issues that is part of the claim being asserted? Isn't that one of the most contentious issues, in the sense that, even in this legislation, there is the extinguishment or release of any rights of the first nation to any lands? You can't grant larger lands or establish a boundary that might be in dispute, or talk about encroachment of interests around that particular piece of land, but you can only grant some compensation for that.
Is that going to be a stumbling block, do you think? Are we trying to get out of this situation, just because we're increasing the dollar amount of compensation? Is that the rationale behind this?