Thank you, Chair. I'm going to pick up on the point that Mr. Martel was making.
My experience and my perspective is in southern Ontario, where often the elected band councils are seen as a colonial construct and you have various iterations or groups of hereditary chiefs, some self-appointed development groups and multiple first nations that can each have a stake in the same projects. They all have a myriad of different organizations and groups that also have some sort of stake in that project. From a government perspective, it can be really frustrating when you think you have a constructive, collaborative approach and you move forward with a project, and then, as Mr. Martel was getting at, there's a protest or it's frustrated when you get to the site.
Understanding that you're working with the First Nations Major Projects Coalition and also in Saskatchewan with multiple first nations involved, how do you see these overarching coalitions fitting into helping move these projects forward and working collaboratively in a more constructive relationship with first nations?
