- First real recognition of First Nation right to manage its reserve lands and resources,
- Removal of reserve lands from the Indian Act,
- Community control over First Nation land management and development,
- Inclusion of both off-reserve and on-reserve members in important decisions,
- Increased accountability to members of the First Nation,
- More efficient management of First Nation land,
- Recognition of First Nation legal capacity to acquire and hold property, to borrow, to contract, to expend and invest money, to be a party to legal proceedings, to exercise its powers and to performs its duties,
- Transfer by Canada of previous land revenues to First Nation,
- Recognition of the right to receive revenue from interests in First Nation land,
- Protection against arbitrary expropriation of First Nation land,
- Protection against loss of First Nation land through surrender for sale,
- Ability of First Nation to protect the environment,
- Ability of First Nation to address the current vacuum on rules related to land during marriage breakdown,
- Recognition of significant law-making powers respecting First Nation land,
- Removal of the need to obtain Ministerial approval for First Nation laws,
- Recognition in Canadian courts of First Nation laws,
- Recognition of right to create modern offences for breach of First Nation laws,
- Ability to appoint Justices of the Peace,
- Ability to create a local dispute resolution process,
- Establishment of a legal registry system,
- Establishment of a First Nation-run Lands Board to provide technical assistance to First Nations…