Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for appearing.
It was my understanding that a request had been made for you to come at the tail end of our study, after we had heard from the first nations, but I'm hoping that you'll be amenable to returning, because I'm sure we will have a thousand-fold more questions after we have heard from various first nation governments, organizations, and so forth, who have had some experience in pursuing some of the options you've mentioned.
My first question is to you, Mr. Beynon. You used the term “modernization”. Is that a term you use or has it come from the government?