I agree with that. On the consultation front, I teach constitutional law, so I teach the duty to consult and the duty to accommodate. I think sometimes we forget about the accommodation piece. We think about the consultation piece, but once those consultations are done, they have to actually find their way into whatever response the government makes.
Rather than having legislation litigated once it's developed--because it hasn't done a proper job of accounting for the diverse needs of aboriginal women--why not actually make that accommodation at the time that legal responses are developed, rather than having to go through challenges like Sharon McIvor's after the fact?