Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  If I may add something, Mr. Chairman, there is a specific clause in the legislation that seeks to speak to the fact that nothing in this legislation should affect the rights of the Naskapi and the Inuits under the JBNQA, the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, or under the implementation legislation.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The idea of these amendments was essentially to replicate what the bands can or cannot do. So we elevate these powers and possibilities, including the possibility in the future of enacting bylaws to prohibit something. But at this time I can't think of an example.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Essentially, what we had originally was local police forces in each of the communities. This is pursuant to the original provisions of section 19 of the James Bay Treaty. Eventually over the years, we realized that some of the issues and services dealt with by the police were better dealt with at the regional level and that more coordination was required between the communities to deliver some of the services, including investigative work, dispatching, things like that.