Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you so much. Well, I can try. Hypothetical examples are just that, but there are many instances out there that could form the basis of complaints that have not yet come to us. This is just a very brief account. You've asked about potential complaints against government.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're aware of cases that have been brought where a first nation exercised its right to give preference in hiring to a qualified aboriginal person. We can't disclose the details of those cases—complaints of course are held as confidential—but the policy has been invoked upon occasion.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you so much for your question. In answer to your question of how many complaints we receive from reserve residents against first nations on a yearly basis, we've received between 35 to 50 over the last several years. In terms of your question of how many we turn down because of section 67 currently, in terms of our screening process for dealing with complaints that would invoke section 67, in all likelihood they are either initially screened—that is, they don't proceed to a formal complaint—or because of the knowledge of the section 67 exemption that's currently out right now, people might not even call the Canadian Human Rights Commission to begin with.