It will be extraordinarily complicated administratively to have status Indians in B.C. recognized or reinstated in that jurisdiction but not anywhere else in the country.
I have to applaud the efforts of the Senate in getting the bill as far as it went. We have to remember where Bill S-2 started. The work of the senators was quite courageous in pushing the envelope forward and getting the second generation cut-off rule on the table. It's important that the bill, in its current form, continues to make its way to pass through the House, but with more legislative mechanisms in place, recognizing the need for a process and binding timelines for creating an option for first nations to exercise their jurisdiction exclusively over indigenous citizenship.