In terms of the nation-to-nation relationship, it's almost as if you need the constitutional process to start working toward...because in Canada, you have common law and civil law. Remember Charlottetown and Meech Lake? First nations governments were going to be recognized. I say they should be recognized as a first order of government, not as a third order of government.
What's the process to get us there? There has to be a process and that has yet to be established. That's where we have to start looking and start working toward that. It's almost like a constitutional working group, if you will, involving the feds, the provinces, the first nations governments. You've had section 35 since 1982. Is it a full box of rights or an empty box? The debate still goes on. We need a process to start working toward that respectful nation-to-nation relationship, again, getting first nations governments not as a third order, but the first order, and having first nations law and jurisdictions recognized in addition to common law and civil law.
