Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much, Mr. Shanks. I appreciate your taking the time to come before the committee today.
I have a number of questions. I'm sure you are familiar with the format. We have seven minutes to exchange.
I'm looking at the paper called Economic Development in First Nations: An Overview of Current Issues, from January 2005. You made a point about own source revenue in your paper. You raised the issue that economic development success is fragile and that there have to be incentives to prosper and reinvest.
We have heard concerns from a number of first nations that when they end up in agreements, whether they are for land claims or self-government, the clawback on OSR, own source revenue, happens far too quickly, before they have actually become firmly established economically. In fact, we recently had a case with the First Nations Education Act in B.C. It wasn't a term of the original act, but we've heard from B.C. first nations that OSR now has to be considered in financing the B.C. First Nations Education Act. Again, these are fragile economies.
I'm wondering if you could comment on that.