The proposed legislation will contribute to Canada's implementation of UNDRIP, including the UNDRIP commitment to free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples on laws, policies or programs that affect their territories.
The Department of Justice currently has a co-development process under way with indigenous governments to give a practical application and an action plan to what free, prior and informed consent will look like for the federal government. We're not trying to get out ahead of that process.
The legislation is intended to be flexible and to keep up to date as the Crown-indigenous relationship evolves, and to catch up to that action plan co-development process.