Thank you.
Yes, I'd love to respond.
I would like to highlight that UNDRIP sets a minimum standard that Canada should meet for indigenous rights. However, modern treaties are protected under section 35 of the Constitution from 1982. As such, and unlike UNDRIP, modern treaties have the force and effect of law in Canada. The role of the modern treaty commission would be to ensure legal obligations contained in modern treaties are fully and effectively implemented in a timely manner and with the spirit and intent in which the parties entered into them.
As President Clayton advised, it's the floor, not the ceiling. Modern treaties give us certainty, and that's what we look for.