Thank you to the minister and staff and to Wendy Grant-John for coming today.
I looked at the INAC website, and there are lessons learned from the U.S. experience. In a nutshell, it talks about the resolution of real property disputes under tribal law and by tribal courts tending to be more successful than dispute resolution under alternative regimes. It's much more complicated than that, but that's it in a nutshell. I heard Wendy Grant-John say that it is becoming more acceptable in communities to look at legislation, so I assume implicit in that is that perhaps not all communities are there.
My question is a two-part one, one to the minister and one to Ms. Grant-John.
To the minister, given the range of proposals that were in your presentation, are there minimum standards that you would like to propose that legislation or bylaws might need to meet? If yes, what would those minimum standards be?
Ms. Grant-John, could you expand on that comment about it becoming more acceptable? I assume there are people who are saying legislation by the Canadian government is not acceptable.