I was saying there are other ways of doing this besides including aboriginal communities in this act.
As some first nations have said--Chief Picard has said--we are for transparency, but we don't feel this is the proper act in which to include aboriginal people because of our stance on sovereignty, and because of the simple fact that there are two laws in Canada--one for ordinary Canadians and one for aboriginal people--and making a mix like that, if you want to look at it in practical terms, really doesn't work.
More than that, it's an assertion that the moneys allocated for aboriginal people--yes, the Canadian taxpayers pay into that fund that goes to aboriginal communities, but that money is our money. That money has been earned through the minerals and resources Canada has used to become a rich country. It has been taken from our lands; people are living on our traditional territories that have never been ceded.
We have to have a different relationship and within that relationship is the infrastructure, the administration of the moneys that affect the realities and the needs of aboriginal people.
I don't know if I have made myself clear.
Chief Picard might have something else to say.