Well, I think what has been hindering us is the relationship, frankly, we've had with the federal government and federal departments. Any time any aboriginal program or service delivery issue is contemplated, too often the response is, “Let's talk to the political people, to the exclusion of all others, about how we address the service needs of people in communities”.
For instance, the Kelowna accord on education talked about the need to increase standards to provincial levels, to have first nations school boards in urban areas, and to have Métis bursaries, all of which we naturally agree with. We would have argued the need for alternative schools in urban areas, for expanding the head start programs, and for finding a way to have young, single aboriginal women get back into school and to finish. They're just different approaches that we would have taken to the issue.
So have the representative bodies prevented us from actually accessing funding? Not formally, but I think the federal government's response to the aboriginal questions and its ignoring of the urban aboriginal challenge, broadly, has certainly been a huge barrier for us as an organization, sir.