Under this proposed legislation, of course, one of the things we have talked about is the opt-in option for first nations. There is no imposition of it from the outset. Certainly in both of your cases, custom election would continue. The Indian Act election for Chief Nepinak would continue as well.
The main concern that we've heard, even from others, is that there is the ability to be opted in. That is a major concern.
I understand that has been done only three times, where a first nation has been taken out of custom code and placed back into the Indian Act. So it certainly isn't something the minister does willy-nilly, to use a term that probably isn't in Hansard a lot.
Because this is opt in and because the discretion is hardly ever used, do you not see there is an advantage for first nations that want this? Why would you be opposed to letting first nations that want to opt in to this new legislation to do so?