It's hugely important, especially when we're talking about transparency and accountability, but what are the benchmarks? Will you be looking at unemployment levels, suicide levels, children in government care, people in prison? What will you be measuring?
If it's a measurement of government programs, we've been dealing with that for the last 50 or 100 years. It hasn't helped us. That's why I really encourage.... This is all based on experience. I lived the Indian Act experience. I lived the poverty life, and now I'm living a different life. My kids are living a different life. My grandkids have a future that I never could have imagined.
I do appreciate the reporting and that you're talking about this, but if you don't have hard objectives written into this, hard terms of reference, then the reporting will not benefit first nations on the ground. That leaves the question of who it is going to benefit.