My colleague, Mr. Strahl, said that according to his information, only three times in history under the Indian Act section has that power of the minister been exercised.
This is similarly worded discretion. You used the term “broad discretion”. I don't think it's broad discretion if it has only happened three times. We have members of first nations communities supporting the legislation.
In the context that it has only been used three times, does it not make sense to proceed with the legislation and let people who want to opt in and who have come to the committee and said they want to opt in be able to do so? Does that not make sense?