As was alluded to earlier, since the Supreme Court of Canada rendered those decisions 25 years ago, the impact and the effect of those decisions was that the court made it clear that the provincial and territorial matrimonial property laws that aboriginal spouses living on reserve had attempted to use in the past, and had benefited from on occasion, did not apply to aboriginal people living on reserve. So first nation communities that are reserves under the Indian Act do not get the benefit, and that's the gap that Bill S-2 is trying to fill.
This government has been at it now for a number of years, and we believe it's time that the gap be filled.