The agreement says that an impact and benefit agreement is to be negotiated for any protected area, and there were a number of protected areas already in existence when the land claim agreement was signed in 1993. So the land claim agreement said that these protected areas must have impact and benefit agreements by 1998, and that time is long since past. So those are for the heritage rivers and the historic sites.
I think that we're in a unique situation where the government is freshly out of our settling the $1-billion lawsuit, which we settled out of court two years ago for $255 million. So I think the government is aware that when it's in breach—and recent case law supports this—the breachee can sue for damages. We got that a little while ago. It's there, it's in place. We've been trying to work with the federal government on these impact and benefit agreements, but it's just not happening.
Just in addition, a final point is what you have in front of you on recommendation number one is that we need a new concerted approach on the approach of funding, implementing, and negotiating constitutionally protected land claim agreement provisions. I think that the government is on the way. We see this with the mandate letters, but also the cabinet directive on modern treaties that was established by the federal government.