Mr. Speaker, one of the previous questions the minister answered was about transparency, and it has to do with the very nature of the bill. The bill is about the transparency of the wages and benefits that councillors receive on first nations territories. Would the minister agree with me that in every other level of government—for example, members of Parliament in the House and members of the Senate—our wages and our benefits are all publicly known? We must submit these every year. Our expenses and our office budgets are there for everyone to see where every dollar and penny went. The same is true with provincial and municipal levels of government.
Why should this other level of first nations government not operate under the same accountability regime?