Thank you.
As you said, you've asked this question several times of first nations, about why they think this involves lands and resources. If you look at it from a first nations perspective, all of our rights—our inherent rights and our governance, most specifically our governance—are tied to our relationship to the land. It seems to be a very colonial, non-indigenous perspective to say, “You can have legislation with respect to the inherent right to self-governance” and then bifurcate that from our land, our resources and our people, because that's where we derive our laws, our rights and our governance from.
Because we weren't consulted in this process, as the national chief said, we are left to question.... Because land is not explicitly written into this legislation and because internal governance is also not explicitly written into this legislation, how will that affect our rights to land?
There's also no provision for resolving any conflicts with existing treaty rights or land rights.