If I chose to do that in our community, or if a council wanted to do that in our community, on things like property assessments, then I and the council of the day wouldn't be in office. We focus on the non-aboriginals. A person who has a corporation, for example, can exempt themself from the provisions of the Indian Act and then become a corporation. So in property taxation we focus on the non-aboriginals. Our peoples see it as a benefit, as a right, and it's something they are not prepared to give up as far as their internal benefits are concerned. We're a long way from that right now. Now it's a matter of catching up and knowing that we have some source that actually can go back into the community, and that's how our people really look at that.
So property taxes, for example, are assessed on the non-aboriginal person. Yes, the non-aboriginal person pays it, but our own membership do not. We have two reserves, for example—Tsinstikeptum Indian Reserves 9 and 10 on the west side of the Okanagan Lake—where 80% of the land is held by certificate of possession. Our peoples have the entrepreneurial spirit to actually make use of those lands, and they're not taxed per se for property taxes. Once they develop, though, and once a non-native is involved, either in a business venture or a residence, or is in any way connected with their venue and locale of doing business and residence there, then the lands become taxable. So it's collected in that fashion.