Absolutely, there needs to be some consideration of what the starting point is of that.
If you look at the last 20 years, you see it's been the Supreme Court of Canada that's been providing most of the guidance to government on how consultation and accommodation happen. There have been hard-fought cases by first nations. It's actually cleared the air on a lot of issues.
But now, as we're getting close to this era of consultation and moving on to accommodation. I point to one of the decisions that recently happened out of Clyde River, a very good decision. One of the decisions that came out of there—and I have a quick note on that—is what was described as the Crown failing to inquire into Clyde River's rights and specific impacts on their rivers, and yet focusing on the environmental effects.
Part of reconciliation must be the understanding of what the actual impacts are to an aboriginal right. If you go to any other sector in Canada, you find what's called upon is the development of a socio-economic analysis that actually measures impacts, what the impacts are of imposing a statutory decision or not. That comes out of the Statutory Instruments Act.
But you also look at other mechanisms. There isn't one for first nations that actually looks at what the impacts are of a loss of fisheries. Yet a loss of fisheries is huge to aboriginal peoples. When you look at it, you see there is nothing on the plate, when the guarantee of Canada is to ensure that we have access for our food, social and ceremonial use. If you look at the southern end of the provinces, you find there are very few traditional foods that are actually left upon our plate.
Part of reconciliation must be, can we actually recover those uses? I think reconciliation is, how do we actually determine how we're going to live together in the future? So yes, I do agree with your statement.