I'll start, then, and mention a couple of projects.
The first project of the commission was the response to institutional abuse, the response to the residential schools. The project actually reached out to constituencies that don't speak to government, that were scared, and we had an aboriginal advisory council to that project that included a representative from people in the Yukon, among others across Canada.
That's one of the roles it can play that others cannot play. It can bring people around the table who sometimes don't agree and ask them what they're afraid of in this change. Sometimes there is consensus that develops that allows government to eventually move, and this is what happened in that project. It took seven years, obviously. We tabled a report in 2000. It took six years for things to move, but certainly I think it was instrumental in moving people closer to agreement on what could be a possible solution to a very complex and difficult issue.
For aboriginal treaty-making, there was consultation and a working group in B.C. trying to get them to organize around the complex issues of treaty-making and reconciling the different viewpoints on this. The fiduciary role of government toward aboriginal people, what is the future of this? Is it going to work? People are disappointed. There are several meetings across Canada trying, again, to bring people closer together, and aboriginal legal traditions that Monsieur Le Bouthillier discussed.
One of the big reports of the commission was on restorative justice. There's a big movement for restorative justice and mediation. Where's it going, and what will be the impact on the Canadian legal system? It has been recognized in the Quebec Bar now. So that's one of the issues. That's how it works.