In this report, we are actually quite positive about the work the department has done to settle the claims. We found they were flexible and that they used innovative approaches to try to reach an agreement. But as the member has mentioned, we've also done several audits of the implementation of these agreements and found many problems in them. I would say the major difficulty we note is that while there may be respective technical legal conditions, the overall intentions of the agreements are often not met, and even when we looked at ones like the Inuvialuit agreement, I remember that some 27 years after the agreement had been made there were still difficulties with transfers of land.
So implementation of these agreements is a challenge. This report was really focusing on the actual reaching of an agreement and the work the department did to do that.