I hear you, Chiefs, when you say that the bottom line is that we know the solutions. It's frustrating too to have 32 litigations going on out of 36 across the country. Again, we hear talking points from the government about how they know what the answer is. We wouldn't have litigation if they just enforced the answer that they keep saying they know. Instead, we've been hearing about $13 million spent on officers who never came to the communities. When it comes to these issues, it's extremely frustrating to hear.
This is a more holistic thing too when it comes to justice reform and justice in the communities. We see communities, like the Kainai two weeks ago, doing their own justice system. The Yukon first nations are doing their own justice system. The Senate has advanced legislation allowing indigenous police to enforce indigenous laws and indigenous prosecutors to handle those cases, in Bill S-223 and Bill S-224. Sometimes in our communities, tough love is still love. We have a banishment bylaw that the RCMP enforces for us.
I'm wondering if you can speak, National Chief, on the importance of recognizing first nation laws and justice systems as well.