4. Did we build it well and will it last?

The Métis adjudicative body must be trusted to be utilized, it must be reliable to have longevity, and it must be adaptable to create solutions which build relationships instead of breaking them.

How we meet this need will be determined by the people who are using it. The Métis people will determine the value of this adjudicative body, which is why we need to hear from you in advance of our design work, during the design phase and while we test the model we have built.

In the first phase of our approach, "discovery and deconstruction," we are learning as we go. We are engaged in a constant and intentional evaluation process. This means we are asking big questions, such as:

• Who - and what - should inform our design of this Métis adjudicative body?

• How do we hold Métis citizens, the current young ones and future generations, at the centre of this work? It is for their future.

• How do we remain grounded by Métis history and honour values and culture throughout each phase of the build?

• How do we understand what has existed - and exists today - so that what emerges in this model can be healthy, trustworthy, and transparent?

We follow these questions, tracking along the way, the threads of what we are hearing from our conversations in communities, and what we are reading and witnessing in our research. We are engaging a wide variety of perspectives in our sensemaking processes, because we aim to examine the broadest landscape of what might be possible before we gather what has been learned and narrow our focus to build the adjudicative body.

Learning as we go in design, evaluation will be in service to ongoing development of ideas and early and often feedback, including members of communities through this website and other mechanisms, to inform the creation of a workable design. This will include scoping an evaluation plan that will be used during the piloting phase.

During the piloting phase we will continue to learn as we go. Evaluation will support iterative development of the adjudicative body with each case that it hears. At the end of the piloting phase, a summative evaluation will be conducted to assess this body in light of goals we hoped to achieve and to lay the foundation for further development or expansion of the reach of the adjudicative body, as well as regular reviews of its functionality and impact.