Public Safety committee  Yes, there has been interest outside of Yukon and the west. Just let me check here. We have negotiations that are under way now with some first nations other than B.C. These arrangements are available both for self-governing first nations and for Indian bands that continue to operate primarily under the Indian Act.

Public Safety committee  I'd be happy to. My name is Ken Medd. I work for the aboriginal tax policy section of the Department of Finance. Our unit is quite a small unit. We're responsible for negotiating tax-related provisions of treaties and land claims and self-government agreements. My work for the past few years has been focused on first nations goods and services tax agreements.

Public Safety committee  Yes, I believe so. The origins of this set of arrangements we have with first nations goes back to about 1997, where individual first nations came forward and said they would like to start charging their own sales tax on sales on reserve of, generally, tobacco or fuel products or alcohol.