One of the notions about good governance is if you want it to be sustainable, it really has to come from the grassroots. It has to come from the folks themselves. I put this teaser out that there was one example of an amazing transformation in terms of governance—one of the very few examples over the last decade. Where was that? Can anybody tell me in this learned committee? What continent had a number of countries transform themselves really quite rapidly in governance terms? The answer is Europe. It's the European Union. The reason was that citizens looked across their borders in Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, and Estonia and said, “We want to be part of the European Union. Look what life is like there. That's what we want.” The European Union said, “Fine. You are welcome into our club, but here are the conditions.” The conditions were a lot of good governance and market economies. “If you want to come into the European Union, this is what has to happen.” By God, all of the politicians in these countries, pushed by their citizens, said, “Yes, we're going to get into the European Union. We're going to do these good governance reforms because that is what is going to give us a much better life. We can see it across the border.”
The question is, could we imagine a kind of club that would be equivalent to the European Union that the first nations would want to belong to? To get into the club, you would have to have good governance. The judge of whether you got into the club would not be the federal government; it would be some sort of neutral agency out there, like the ISO or something else.