The reality is probably that different jurisdictions will be different. Essentially, what happened in British Columbia, as I understand it, was that, from a legislative point of view, it was more a matter of pointing to pieces of legislation that already existed and saying, “Okay, we are going to abide by that.” It wasn't that there was a new legislative base put in place. The B.C. health authority itself was sort of the organization for delivery, the delivery mechanism. Again, that was an obstacle that we identified didn't exist often, and there was a 10-year funding agreement put in place.
Again, fundamentally, we were looking at that from the point of view that they were able to overcome those obstacles. I'm going to put a lot of emphasis on those four obstacles that we identified in 2011, because I think those are the things that the government, when it's dealing with first nations issues, needs to make sure that it's getting past.
Where is the funding coming from? How certain is it going to be? Who's going to do the service delivery? What's the standard that we are going to deliver those services at? What is the legislative base for which people can expect to get those services? Those are the things that need to be concentrated on. Then, in addition to that, there needs to be the commitment on the part of all of the political people involved to try to move it forward.
In the B.C. situation, the other success factor we identified was the fact that British Columbia first nations put together sort of one point of contact for the governments, so that they knew who they were negotiating with and who was going to be able to speak for that side of the table.