Relationship to Transfer Payments

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	What is Own Source Revenue (OSR)? Is it any First Nation revenue source other than transfer payments from public governments?
	What are considered transfer payments?
	Should transfer payments be affected by OSR? If so, by how much?
	How should OSR affect the reduction of transfers from the federal government? From the provincial government?
	What portion of OSR should be applied to the cost of government? To the accumulation of wealth? What is the cost of government? (link to Services and Responsibilities)
	What are the incentives for First Nations to maximize OSR? Should there be incentives?
	Should the OSR mechanism be neutral to First Nation government activity vs. private sector activity? Or create incentives for one over the other?
	Should there be distinctions between the treatment of different types of revenues? If there is a distinction, what should it be?
	What are the individual obligations and benefits in OSR? Collective obligations and benefits? (e.g., certificate of possession lands)
	Should there be a difference in the treatment of OSR at the time of treaty vs. OSR generated after treaty?
	What elements of OSR will be constitutionally protected?
	Should OSR be related to actual revenues? To potential revenues?
	How are revenues, actual and potential, verified?
	How does the mechanism address lack of predictability in OSR?
	How can an OSR measurement system be cost-effective? (e.g., balance between simplicity and comprehensive – don’t want to spend $10 calculating $1 of OSR)

Available Revenue Sources, including Business Income, Resource Revenue Sharing, Investment Income, Taxation

	What revenue sources should be included? Excluded?
	Would resource royalties be treated as OSR? As a tax?

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