Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think terminating the funding agreement would likely be the absolute last resort. By the way, I've had an opportunity to look at what was then called the “intervention policy”. I'm sure you're familiar with the intervention policy. It's sort of a three-step process. This is w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  This comes down to what the level of transparency is here. I think the bill is meant to have a fairly high level of information in terms of own-source revenue. I cannot see a real problem for the business, such as a winery, if your financial statements indicate either total rev

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I won't repeat a lot of what Mr. Craig said, but I'll just add a few points on own-source revenue, which I mentioned in my last point. I think there is a clear tendency, where discretionary funding is involved—in the federal government, that would primarily be in the area of econ

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Of course it's a government-to-government relationship. What else is it? I'd just say that the relationship between the various governments can be quite different. It doesn't have to be a relationship that is uniform across all the governments.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I think everybody has a small PowerPoint that I've prepared, so I'll just go down these six points. The first point is that accountability appears to be a universal norm of good governance. I have never seen, in any measure of good governance, an