Thank you, Michael, for those questions.
A lot of us signed these agreements to get out of the Indian Act, but our experience has been that Indian Act-based funding premises are the key for the administration of government. Not to talk about the failed policies of the past, but fiscal relationships cannot be built upon this fundamentally flawed foundation. A lot of us signed these treaties to ensure we would start from a new foundation that recognized that Indian band funding cannot be the starting relationship, as it was under the Indian Act.
The machinery of government is very deep-rooted. It has to change and shift so that the implementation of this constitutional agreement can be directly carried out, either through a cabinet directive or through the Privy Council, and there can be an independent body to assess how the implementation of these agreements is going, such as the Auditor General's report. That's what Canada needs in order to monitor how the implementation of these agreements is going, where they are at, and how the objectives can be reached. That currently does not exist in the machinery of government.