Okay, thank you.
Then we head into the freem prior, and informed consent, FPIC, which I think is absolutely fundamental to this particular piece of legislation. I'm going to target the area of consent. I think we hear lots of people saying it means this, it means that, but I thought it was said best by Pam Palmater:
In what alternate universe does consent not require you to say yes or no? In every other context in society and in law, and in contracts, consent means you get to say ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ Only in the case of Indigenous peoples does it mean something else.
I would ask the justice department, is there a clear definition as it would relate to this in terms of what consent will mean? I certainly know in the Criminal Code there's a clear definition. I've seen lots of lawyers argue all sorts of areas, but I think Pam Palmater perhaps said it best. Could you talk about consent?