Thank you, President Alsop. I want to congratulate you for getting this done and for this progress to where we are today.
You mentioned in your comments that when we hear from people in this committee, we often hear from Indian Act chiefs, councils and sometimes grand chiefs, but you come here on behalf of the Haida Nation. It's such a tremendous feat in itself to get ratification and buy-in from an entire nation to get to a point where you've been able to have them look at Canada as a partner and say that we can take this journey together.
Would you be able to tell us a little bit about how you've come to this journey of being able to work as a nation, on behalf of the nation, as opposed to individual Indian Act bands?