Ms. Rebecca Blake (Acting Director, Legislation, Engagement and Regulations, Department of Indigenous Services) at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

In terms of your interpretation of it as being quite prescriptive, I would tend to agree. It would provide, by federal law, a way for first nations to work with first nations on any kind of competing interests among first nation laws. There could be different approaches when it was left up more to a first nation law for how they would work together within their individual laws as opposed to in federal law. That would be the one consideration.