I appreciate the question. It is in fact Indigenous Services Canada.
I guess I would start off by saying that we want to work, obviously, in lockstep with first nations government to support transparency and accountability. This is very much the approach the department has taken in order to work with communities across the country. This was, of course, a recommendation in the new fiscal relationship report that was developed by the Assembly of First Nations.
I think the approach we're trying to take is really not a top-down approach but very much in building community capacity and governance in order to really start investing to close the very unacceptable socio-economic gaps that do exist in these communities. I think it's important to state that the majority of first nations have effective governments and they are partners with Indigenous Services Canada. When challenges do arise, we want to work with communities. We want to think about solutions and we want to empower them in order to manage that.
I will turn to Philippe Thompson to see if there's anything he would like to add based on my response today.
Thank you.
