It creates a framework for Canada and first nations to confront the inevitable issue, the clash, that we are going to run into, which everybody sees on the horizon but nobody seems to be talking about. There will come a time when the list of status Indians and the list of citizens recognized by first nations are going to be different lists. There will be incongruity between the two lists. The important question is this: How are we going to respect the human rights of the people who are not recognized as first nations citizens or, conversely, who are not recognized as federal status Indians? From a funding standpoint and from a human rights standpoint, these are important conversations that we need to confront, and I think we need to set the stage and establish a forum for those discussions to happen.
