Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Jean, for the significant and substantive contributions to this process.
We don't mean to be rushing you, but normally we have a more limited presentation time, so that we have close to 50 minutes.... Right now we're trying to make sure that my colleague Carolyn gets some minutes. I'm going to jump in here to talk about some practical impacts of this agreement, in light of my colleague Jean's line of questioning.
During the course of the negotiations and the consultation process, both of your organizations have stated that STC and SXTA—I'll use the acronyms, since we're all familiar with them—have not had an opportunity to have input into the Yale First Nation final agreement. STC and SXTA have also stated that the Yale First Nation has refused to consider any changes to the final agreement post 2009.
My question is—and I have just a couple of minutes because I want to go to what I think is an important second question—haven't measures been taken to significantly reduce the practical impact of the Yale treaty on the STC and SXTA interests?
Joe, do you want to comment on that?