I think we need to recognize that it's the responsibility of all of us. Half of our population is urban, so it is not exclusively a federal responsibility; we all have to step up and play our roles.
When I was in St. Theresa Point about a month ago now, we had a forum on public health and improving the public health system. One of the things we talked about was public health human resources. A community member there asked why health is not working with education to build something like a feeder education system. We have specialized schools in which they say they want to train more engineers, or they have an excellent basketball program and everything in the curriculum is geared to that. Why are we not doing this with our education systems, whether in a first nations school that's directed by a first nation, in Inuit communities, or in urban schools where there are high proportions of aboriginal peoples? Why do we not work with our education colleagues?
I think the four host first nations provide an excellent example. They identified who the relevant stakeholders were—it was the four first nations—and identified their common goal, which is to empower their communities to ensure that they got part of the benefits from hosting and to ensure that there was meaningful education and participation for everyone who came there.
Why can't we work with all of the relevant partners, including those around the table here today—our organizations—and the provincial education, the federal, and the first nations education holders, to make this happen in a systemic and sustained way?