That's a big question.
Well, who's speaking for whom? That's our biggest problem. We don't allow Canada to unilaterally speak for us, which is why we're being complimentary today because that was not the approach taken. We would not allow the Government of Quebec to unilaterally speak for us, either.
We had an issue recently with the Quebec constitution that's being adopted, and this is the message that we were trying to send. They're not independent of one another.
You had premiers like René Lévesque, Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry. They were staunch separatists during their time, but they did exemplary things in highlighting and protecting indigenous rights. There's a difference between being a separatist or a sovereignist and being an isolationist. This seems to be the distinction we're seeing today.
I hope a commissioner would help underline the fact that there is an indigenous-federal relationship that the provincial governments cannot ignore, and vice versa. The provincial relationships are being built up.
It's going to be one more example to help provincial governments understand that they cannot embark on these things in a unilateral way.
