I would just add that I think the key is the flexibility on their side. So far when we talk about negotiations and reconciliation, it seems to be reconciling our expectations with Canadian law or Canadian policy and trying to fit them into that mould, rather than looking at what's confirmed in the Constitution, what's confirmed in the treaties as our right and how we go out and exercise that. There is also recognizing that we as Mi'kmaq people can define that for ourselves. It doesn't have to compete with Canadian law; it can be in concert with it. It can work well with those regulations, those policies, but we have to have that open, and if it's not there, then we're going nowhere and we've spent four and a half years going sideways.
On October 26th, 2020. See this statement in context.