Thank you for your testimony.
One of the things we're looking at is large infrastructure gaps in first nations communities across Canada. One of the unfortunate things, because of the Indian Act and the history, is that many communities do not generate any taxation revenues to pay for things like roads, infrastructure and all the things that first nations communities need, unlike municipalities that have the ability to tax people for land, for homes and for all of these things. That's not something, generally, that chiefs want in a first nations community.
Budget 2024 committed to moving forward with an opt-in fuel, alcohol, cannabis and tobacco tax framework. Do you think there's an appetite for this from first nations communities across Canada? If so, how do you see that working?
That is for either one of you.