I certainly do.
It's up to the Métis nation and the Métis people to identify all their inherent rights and their status. When they do, they interpret those rights based on their own world view and philosophy, traditions, customs, practices, values, beliefs and the Métis language. Then there are collective and individual duties and responsibilities to all those inherent rights, including Métis inherent sovereignty.
They know all that, and what are their plans and studies to implement their inherent rights by sector, such as the inherent right to education, the inherent right to health, or the Métis inherent right to justice and economics? This is looking at the whole economy, which is community-based, regional, national and international, with all your inherent rights and treaty rights intact in every sector of the economy, with ownership and benefits identified through a trade and commerce act with the Métis nation. Once you do that, you have your special laws and policies that implement your inherent rights and the Métis identification of their status.
Some Métis have legislated their own citizen pacts and laws. One guy from Ontario came from a Métis community here to Saskatchewan, and he was denied Métis status. What are the Métis doing, rejecting the portability of their status and their rights that I just talked about earlier? They have no authority to be doing that. They have to change their citizenship act to respect the recognition of the Métis, no matter where they are in Canada or outside of Canada. The portability of the Métis status and rights is critical. The Métis nation has to come together.
Remember that earlier I said that the Métis nation has to deal with the internal interface of jurisdiction and law? You only put your finger on one of the issues that will impact the Métis nation and the Métis government. It's respecting citizenship and membership and how they implement that to complement the rights and status of the Métis and the portability of their rights and status—