It is. It speaks to the fact that the way in which “lawful obligation” is being assessed and interpreted is too narrow and too conservative. I think that's what we're learning from the tribunal decisions.
The best example I can think of would be the decision in Beardy's & Okemasis Band #96 and #97 v. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada. Our approach had been that if a claim appeared to be speaking to an individual benefit, such as the payment of an annuity, versus something that was vis-à-vis the first nation as a whole, we had no authority or mandate to deal with it.
In the Beardy's case, the tribunal clarified that annuity payments were, in fact, a benefit held by the collective. They just happened to be implemented by way of individual payments. That then caused us to go back to look at and think about reviewing all the cases in which we had dealt with annuities and to reopen those that we had closed.