Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I share the concerns of many of my colleagues. I have heard not a lot of support for bill; even the Members who say that they are going to support the bill are doing so begrudgingly. There seems to be a bit of a difference between the perception of Indigenous groups from land claim areas and those areas without settled land claims yet. In my area, there are no settled land claims. I know that Indigenous leaders in my region have spoken out against moving forward with this bill.

I look at the process that went into drafting this compared to something like the Mineral Resources Act. We got regular updates from the Minister. I know that there were working groups. I know that Indigenous governments were really engaged with that, and it doesn't seem to be the same situation here. This seems to be lowering the bar in terms of engagement. I think that, moving forward, looking at the future of our territory, everything will be devolved, eventually, to Indigenous governments. I don't know why we are sort of taking a step back in terms of consultation and in terms of drafting with this piece of legislation.

I also share the concerns of the Member for Yellowknife North, who talked about the committee's workload taking this out on the road. I am on the Standing Committee on Government Operations, and we have dealt with some big bills. They are nothing compared to the technical pieces of legislation that we are looking at here. Not only do we need the staff surrounding us, we need to become experts in these bills so that we can take the information that we hear and incorporate it into the bills.

I can tell you right now that this process is not going to lead to the best possible bill. Putting this forward now, in the state that it is in, in the future, people will be saying, "Why didn't they just take their time and do it right?" We have legislation like that now, and I can see that we are heading that way with this bill. For those reasons, I won't be supporting the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.