The reason we have bilateral service agreements with the majority of provinces and territories is to ensure that communities will be treated as other citizens in the province. We reimburse those costs to make sure this happens. The issue is that the service agreements do not explicitly state what service standards other citizens of the province can expect and therefore what first nations can expect.
It is that level of negotiation that is required in terms of the renewal and expansion of these service-level agreements, and also to ensure that culturally informed approaches are part of these agreements. Many of the agreements were negotiated many years ago. The idea is to really look at a transformed approach.