Thanks, Mr. Chair. I would suggest that Members have a look at the discussion leading up to this recommendation in the report now that it is before you. What committee observed was various approaches to trying to incorporate this idea of Indigenous rights into various bills. I guess the Public Land Act showed the minimum work with just a non-derogation clause, whereas some of the other bills actually tried to incorporate aspects of co-management or at least referenced land-rights agreements in their definitions or in the text of the bill itself.

This is trying to encourage Cabinet to develop a more consistent approach to recognizing and incorporating Indigenous rights and land-rights agreements and so on into statutes before they land here in the House because there doesn't seem to have been much consistency in the approach that was brought forward. This bill was the least successful in accomplishing that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.