Exactly! It's almost a conflation of the word "respect". No individual has a responsibility to "respect" treaties in some substantive way. It sounds more like the Liberals are using the term "respect" abstractly, as in 'it is mandatory to think respectful thoughts'.

In reality this is just another bullet point on the endless Liberal list of ways to gain public support for the Administrative-Aboriginal spending complex that has wasted so many billions of dollars enriching anybody and everybody except poorly-off Aboriginals in Canada.