Yes.
That's a great question about indigenous law-making. I asked our elders before if we had systems of law-making, and they said, “absolutely”. It's work that needs to be done to help our indigenous communities learn how to do indigenous law-making from the stories that have guided our communities for many generations.
I offer the example of child and family services legislation. At ATC, we run under provincial jurisdiction for child and family services and the current delivery of those services, but we are starting the process of indigenous law-making. Part of that process is going out and working with our communities, and listening to the stories of how we have traditionally cared for our children. We help our communities take those stories, translate them and change them into indigenous law, so that we have legislation and processes based on traditional practices. We then ensure that our funding is based on how we have traditionally supported and cared for our families, so that when our families are in crisis, we have ways of being that direct in how we support those families in a way that makes traditional sense to us.
Part of that process that we need to support is helping families, communities and leaders to understand how those stories translate into indigenous law, and then provide appropriate funding to ensure it is practised and supported in our communities.