Okay.

I was just asked to acknowledge where we are, and I want to begin by thanking you for all stepping up into this role, putting yourself forward, in the seat of colonial government.

And that's something that was very, very difficult to be in for 14 years, in this place, in this unseated, traditional, ancestral lands.

of people who go back from the beginning of memory to the , the , the , the Comox people who have stewarded and loved this land for so long, for whom we have to figure out how to dance.

And it's an impossible one in the role of colonial government.

And yet, we must rise every day and do our best to share this beautiful place.

So, just want to acknowledge that these are the lands in which we live and love and play.

And Sandy, you're going to answer this question first, unless it's directed to a specific