We actually had an initiative here in B.C. that began to address that through the Indigenous Tourism Association. We did an authenticity labelling system. It was a pilot. We did this in 2014 and 2015, but of course it required funding support. We did not have the funding support to continue it.
By and large, the shops, galleries, producers and artists we talked with were very much in favour of this as a starting point—as something we could do. I could really see the synergies between that particular system and the system that Mr. Belcourt and his colleague have proposed.
There's that to take care of, but again, it's about public education and relationships. As Canadian citizens, we all need to realize that here we are in our country yet we're being treated differently. Other artists do not have the same challenges we do. I always use Robert Bateman as an example. Would you take a Bateman painting copy and expect not to hear from his lawyer?
We need that kind of support. We need organizational support. We need the ability, among our nations, to rebuild the kinds of structures we had that protected these ancient traditions.