I would just like to offer a very brief additional comment. To clarify this, I don't believe independence is necessarily the appropriate word in this circumstance. I think first nations are seeking a reconciliation of first nations law-making authority with Canadian law-making authority. We've got numerous Supreme Court of Canada decisions that direct us towards this reconciliation, and section 35 of the Constitution sets out a constitutional table at which we can have these negotiations to achieve that reconciliation.
Why that reconciliation is so important is that when imposed legislative solutions are put in place, the result is documents like this. This is the Indian Act, a not very thick document on its own, but a thick document like this when it's an annotated version, containing references to numerous cases where there have been disputes about what the provisions of the act mean, or where there are gaps in the act not fully addressing a particular situation, which force the parties to court to find those clarifications. You need to do that in order to run your daily life, so you can't afford not to go to court to seek those clarifications.
The result of this has been enormous legal and social costs to first nations and governments, where we spend our time in courts coming up with thick, annotated Indian Acts that tell us how we should be doing things, whereas a collaborative approach to legislation is preferable.
Thank you.