Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all of the witnesses.
First off—to the indigenous community leadership—I'm very sorry to learn that the government did not consult you with respect to the changes in the citizenship oath. I would have thought that that had been done. In any event, I'm glad that you're here at this table now for us to receive your input, and hopefully, going forward, this does not happen again in the future.
The issue around inherent rights is something that was discussed in the last panel, and there was a suggestion in terms of making changes in the amendments to the citizenship oath to add the words “inherent rights, titles, treaties and agreements of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people”. I would just like to get comments first from Ms. Whitman with respect to that suggested change. The idea is to add those words after the language that says, “I will faithfully observe the laws of Canada”; you would then say “and inherent rights, titles, treaties”, etc.