I can start.
I would kind of deconstruct the question a little bit. There is one question around the on-reserve situation with regulations and legislation, that kind of thing, but then there is probably a broader issue to do with resource development and other things that probably extend beyond the scope, certainly, of aboriginal affairs, but also maybe the other departments here as well.
NRCan is responsible for the major projects management office. As well, the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency also has a major projects office, and I am aware that there's been a lot of work done to try to deal with some of the regulatory processes. Environment Canada also has a role to play, obviously, in environmental assessments, so that might be an avenue you may wish to pursue.
With respect to the on-reserve situation, I think it has been well documented that the Indian Act is probably one of the most successful pieces of anti-business legislation ever devised, and we're trying to look at ways to try to work outside the Indian Act. Things like the First Nations Land Management Act and the First Nations Commercial and Industrial Development Act are vehicles we are trying to use to provide the same types of legislative and regulatory predictability that you would expect in an economy off reserve. You simply don't have the strength or the breadth of regulation and legislation or rules that you would take for granted off reserve.
To go back to Mr. McColeman's question, if I may, which is kind of related, an important distinction to be made when you're looking at remote communities is the differentiation. Janet mentioned it as well. It is really important to look historically at where remote communities came from. Some remote communities came from economic development, and that is why they're remote now, because maybe the economic development has passed them by. But most first nations communities were not driven by economic development. It's not an economic development phenomenon to put 1,000 people into a fly-in community.
You have to recognize a bit of the historical context of where the remote communities come from in terms of looking at what kinds of solutions are best, or how the solutions can be tailored to the types of situations different types of remote communities find themselves in.