I always advocate that for consultation, especially with our leaders, it depends on what aspects you're going to be consulting on. If it's more technical you go to the educators, but if it becomes political then it's important that the leaders are at the table when decisions are being made.
For first nations in the history of this country, decisions have always been made for us. There are also a lot of documents out there that we can extrapolate information from. You have RCAP, you have the red paper in Alberta, and you have the TRC and the missing and murdered indigenous women reports. The list goes on in terms of the reports and the information that's gleaned from those reports. It's important that we don't reinvent the wheel moving forward. It's important that first nations are at the table in any type of consultation.