Don't get me wrong. Just because you take one small step in accountability, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to have an adverse effect on performance. I'm saying that there is a balancing effect here. All good governance principles are not absolutes, so you have to be careful that when you move in one direction you're not providing something adverse in the other. I guess that's what your question is all about.
All I would say is that if you look again at the federal-provincial relationship—the government-to-government relationship we have in a federation—own-source revenue is a critical factor in terms of equalization payments. It's part of the fabric of our country, and indeed part of our constitution. I think inevitably we will be moving towards an era where first nations own-source revenue is going to be an important part of the transfer mechanisms between the federal government and first nations.
Would you agree with that?