I understand, and I'm reading the differences in the texts, and it just seems that the one that's currently in the legislation is a lot cleaner, whereas the amendments are now offering really defined ways for how first nations should interact with each other, as opposed to leaving that to them. It appears that we're telling them that this is how they should be looking at it.
NDP-22 says, “taking into account factors such as geographic and hydrological proximity and the First Nations’ dependence on the water or source water”.
We just leave what moves forward open to first nations to determine within themselves, based on their own laws and their own beliefs. It's cleaner in the government version.
However, I'll ask the expert: Is there anything in this that wouldn't already be included in what's in the government's more concise version of this clause?