In 1990 he wrote a Master's thesis on the bureaucratic efforts to undermine the Commons Special Committee on Indian Self - Government, and later wrote a doctoral dissertation on the testimony of First Nations lea ders before a succession of joint Senate - Commons Committees on the Constitution during the decade before patriation, part of which was published in 2006 under
the title Speaking with Authority: The Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations Self - Government (Routledge).