I really appreciate your input on this, and obviously it's very limited, because as you've indicated, you are not privy to a lot of the goings on in the first nations.
When we look at the Auditor General's report from December 2006, it basically said the unnecessary reporting burden placed on first nations communities needed to be reduced, and it noted that AANDC alone obtains more than 60,000 reports a year from over 600 first nations.
I know you can't comment on that—or maybe you can, I have no idea—with respect to whether or not this reporting habit that has been foisted upon the first nations is more than what is actually being requested from other levels of government, first of all.
Second, as my colleague was indicating, first nations have their own government. The federal government doesn't tell the provincial government how to disclose its information. In your view—and I don't know if it's within your purview—are first nations able to decide for themselves how to decipher that information and how to get it out there?
Also, when it comes time to providing that information to the first nations members themselves, as opposed to having it on a website, is that contrary to being able to get that information out to the members?