I don't quite understand, Mr. Chairman. It seems to me that aboriginal communities, for example, are being told that we are creating obligations for them, obligations for which they have no funding, that funding will come later, and that they will then in fact be penalized for not honouring the obligations established by the federal legislation. That is what I understood. That would make the amendment out of order.
Mr. Chairman, if I draw a comparison with other communities or other provinces in the same situation, I find it very difficult to understand. What is there about aboriginal communities that would preclude measures that apply to other communities, measures to enable them to apply the legislation? There is something here that escapes me, Mr. Chairman. Perhaps it is not something important, but I would nonetheless find it very helpful if you could draw a parallel between the two—between the rights aboriginal communities have and the rights other communities have.