• 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…