I studied law at the University of Ottawa between 2009 and 2012. That was at a time when indigenous legal scholars John Borrows and Val Napoleon out of the University of Victoria's faculty of law initiated, in partnership with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a project on the revitalization of indigenous laws.
It's been about ten or eleven years since they first took on that initiative, and I understand that they've continued on with their mission to revitalize laws, which, as you say, rest at the foundation of our governance systems and of our ways of life prior to contact. I and many others with a legal background who are indigenous find that this work is a necessity to support, if not be at the core of, the reconciliation process in this country.
If there were a way for the bill to support that in a specific way, we would be doing ourselves a lot of service as a country to continue to invest and take that work on in a serious way.