It's important. We can't withhold justice now when we could address larger issues in the future.
It seems that the feds want to delay justice for future legislation. They can end discrimination now and bring in proper legislation on first nations jurisdiction later. No first nation wants our people to suffer while we negotiate future changes.
It's important that we acknowledge and we see what's in front of us and deal with it. Nobody can deny the fact that there's existing legislation that discriminates and that the fact it discriminates has been dealt with, has been consulted on, has been talked about. The courts, the United Nations and so on and so forth have all supported that this is what should happen.
We can deal with that immediately and then in the future, as time goes on, with statutory timelines, we could deal with the rest.
Thank you.