Thank you, Madam Chair. With the goal to "implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples," I think one of the things when I'm reading in the "what we're going to do" and our timeline, what I heard when we met with the Indigenous leaders, for me, I feel like it's not enough. I know the Premier has said that we need to do this right, but I feel like, at some point, we just need to put this in our legislation in order to move it forward.
I'm going to say it again and again, because I think, in order for us to act on this and in order for us to respect the rights of Indigenous people, we need to start looking at everything that we do with that lens. I think it needs to go into legislation, and I think it needs to go into the mandate letters to the negotiators, and I think it needs to go into, you know, mandate letters to all the departments. That's how I feel that we need to be moving forward, if we're really in the true spirit of going to reconcile.
I feel like, sometimes, when I look at this, we might be letting the Indigenous governments down a little bit, because when they've seen it, and then what I see now, I'm Indigenous, so I'm kind of like, you know, you get excited and then, kind of, the bubble gets popped. That's kind of how I'm feeling. If the Premier is meeting with these groups, and they say they want to move this faster, is the Premier willing to look at that and move it along faster? Thank you.