Thanks for the question.
I did indicate, I believe last time when we were here, that land claims includes treaties. I just want to give one clarification and then some comments on that.
First, land claims includes modern treaties. I will use some examples that I walk through in terms of the specific types of treaties. Those are the treaties where some specific types of fisheries are indicated.
I'd also add that the objective of the Fisheries Act is to protect fisheries. The fisheries protection section speaks to what fisheries we're going to be protecting. Aboriginal and treaty rights we need to respect regardless of what's in the Fisheries Act. We will do that with respect to modern and historic treaty. We always seek to respect aboriginal and treaty rights to fishing.
The definitions, which I talked about a little bit last time, in the Fisheries Act and Bill C-38, and indeed in Bill C-45, speak to fisheries that we're going to protect. Commercial with respect to fishing is defined. Recreational with respect to fishing is defined. We know that doesn't cover all of the fisheries that we wish to protect. We know that there are some other fisheries that are described as food, social, and ceremonial fisheries. We know that there are some other fisheries that are described in land claims. So that's what we sought to do. The word “subsistence” was used previously, because that is in land claims, and there are specific fisheries.
With respect to aboriginal and treaty rights, we always seek to respect aboriginal and treaty rights regardless of how they're defined, going forward.