Yes, a very brief comment.
I haven't created any specific comments, but I know the work that we've done with the communities themselves and the leadership over the last six years in developing these recommendations that are reflected in the bill. I can tell you for a fact that as soon as this bill is adopted into law many of our communities will move to this process immediately.
I have been in discussions with all our communities in Atlantic Canada that are under both custom and the Indian Act system. All of them have told me this is a good thing. It will help us create our future prosperity and move towards economic sustainability of our communities and improve the lives of our people in the community.
It's funny because in the discussions that we did hold in the communities about the election process in all our communities—and we used SurveyMonkey to get surveys from everybody and anybody who wanted to comment on what we were doing—it was interesting that many people saw what we were trying to do not as something that was from the leadership, but something that they believed fundamentally had to change. They articulated that to us again and again and again, whether it was the electoral officer, whether it was the councils, whether it was the band managers, whether it was whomever. They articulated the need for this.
They also indicated how this would create fundamental change in the community. Really at the heart of the matter of this legislation is creating change, improving governance. We've all seen the type of governance that occurs in Toronto. We don't want that. We want a system of governance that works for us and addresses all the needs of all our people in the community and outside the communities, to support all our membership in their endeavours, so that we ensure in all of our communities that we get the best leaders for the job that needs to be done. There's a lot of work that has to be done from now on and it's going to continue to increase.
The better the process, the better the leaders, the better the results we'll get in terms of improving the election process in our community. With that, thank you.