The Iroquois Caucus has drafted a law that is under discussion. What we have done in our communities is implemented practical solutions that work. We have a market-based system in housing. Most of the land that homes are built on are under Indian Act certificates of possession. We allow the one member to take out a mortgage on that house to pay the other partner off who's not going to live in that house when they're both band members. If the non-native person is not a member of the band, the native person borrows money, and then they're paid a financial settlement, which ends the fighting. They both can get on with their lives and have a place to live.
Those are tools that most people in Canada can access when their marriage breaks down. Those tools are not available for first nation people who live on a reserve. Believing that legislation alone will cure this problem is very naive and very unrealistic on the part of the government. It takes financial resources to settle differences about property.