Thank you for the question.
There are many aspects to the possible answer. I'll try to be very brief.
I think it's very clear from experience over the last 20 or 30 years that it is impossible in this area, as it is in others, to simply legislate or make changes in programs without the direct involvement of the people who are affected. That's especially true of aboriginal people, who have entrenched rights in the Constitution and will very much want to be shaping programs, services, and legislation that affect them.
The challenge for governments is always how far can you move with partners. How much agreement can you get on legislative changes? It's been a very thorny issue for governments and parliaments in the past. There have been successes and legislation has been successfully passed by Parliament, and we hope there'll be more in the coming Parliament.
The other partnership that is becoming very important is the involvement of provincial governments. We create a three-corner conversation, which we tend to call tripartite. That's because the services we've been talking about in this chapter are the kinds of services most Canadians get from provincial governments: education, water, housing, child and family services, and so on.
Whatever public policy or public administration expertise there is out there, it tends to be in provincial governments or provincial institutions. If we can get first nations governments working together--not overseen and not regulated by but working together--with provincial governments, and our involvement of course, financially and otherwise, then we think we have the winning recipe for enduring change.