To bring some clarity, the reason there is trouble with this wording is that any federal legislation in the past has been specific to either first nations, Métis, or Inuit. It has not usually been pan-aboriginal, and that's the difficulty with some of the interpretation. It's been infrequent as well, aside from the Indian Act, which is specific to status Indians, and so on. So the infrequency and lack of specificity have contributed to this.
Now, in all fairness, our side and Ms. Dhalla went through the process of getting legal wording properly done to be included in this, and that's what we've put forward.
On a final note, when the aboriginal members were here they said they would support it if aboriginal people were included. They never said they would not support it outright, but they want aboriginal people mentioned specifically.