First of all, I also want to echo the efforts being made in trying to bring the perspective of the Inuit into this bill.
There is a concern with the amendment as drafted, particularly in the part that talks about providing something that could be done either through an agreement or an arrangement between the federal government and a provincial government, which is fine, or an indigenous government for some things that refer to “all institutions of the provincial government”. I think we probably need to be careful in making sure that the federal legislation is not creating obligations on provinces directly.
That being said, I would also offer to the committee that many of the elements that are covered there are already covered in the current clause 8 and the current clause 9 of the bill, so I would urge the committee to think about not adding something that could actually create a bit of pressure within provincial or territorial institutions in a legislation that is purely federal.
Those would be my comments.