I'll give three short examples of what we have done, too.
Last February we organized a very important and by invitation forum on Crown-Métis relationships. There were a lot of people from Justice Canada and there were a lot of Métis experts, experts from all over. It was held in Winnipeg, and at the forum we looked at very important issues. One, for example, was whether the Métis fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government, the provincial government, or do they fall under section 91 of the Constitution under federal government jurisdiction. So that was an important discussion, and we are going to publish, in both languages, the proceedings of that two-day discussion.
As a second example, one of the issues we were working on that would have led to a report to Parliament was financing on reserves. As you know, under sections 89 and 90 of the Indian Act you cannot have security on real or personal property on a reserve. It therefore makes it difficult for aboriginal individual members and bands to get financing in many circumstances. We have talked with the leading experts in Canada on this issue, and one of our commissioners, Rod Wood, from the University of Alberta, who is one of the top security experts in Canada, was the person who was leading us to write our final report on this.
The third example I want to mention, because I know you are from the Yukon, is that we went to the Yukon on a number of occasions. We had your citizens call us, one about electoral reform, because they looked at our work and were inspired by it. But we also met the members of the Carcross Tagish First Nation and also the members of the Teslin Tlingit Council. If you look at the video that we have, you will see that the elders there and members of the community expressed their voices. They do very important work, innovative work, in terms of regenerating indigenous legal traditions. I invite all members to look at this DVD.
Those two groups gave us a contribution that was invaluable, and I think that will be a lasting contribution to the Law Commission of Canada. I am confident of that.
Thank you.