Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have to understand that the Human Rights Act is principally aimed at employment. With respect to the first point, section 16 gives power to an employer or a service provider. Most of the complaints are about employment or delivery of services. In respect of section 16 they have provided a general policy, which is available on their website, on what they call “special programs”.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If I may, the parliamentary secretary mentioned that he was concerned about the possibility that this might make changes to the act. In fact, the Canadian Human Rights Act as it exists right now does provide for certain of those kinds of powers. It may therefore be possible to do a number of these things without having to specify them, and to also enable the first nation—and I'll make another point on that—to develop these kinds of programs.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not sure the land claims agreements and so on that have been signed so far actually contain their own human rights codes. They certainly create—