I'd like to have you guys here for two hours, to tell you the truth. I think it would be very worthwhile.
I'm going to make a little statement and then just throw it out.
Since Paul Martin finished up with politics, he has remained committed to trying to help first nations communities. He came down to Eskasoni and met with high school kids in Eskasoni, and he asked them to give him their problems and their solutions. One gal who was in grade 12 said her baby got sick the other night and they needed more money for doctors. Paul Martin said it wasn't about the money. He asked, if the money were there, who in that room was going to study to be a doctor or nurse, and come back to that community to help out. There was silence.
Then she said that they went to institutions and that English wasn't her first language. They needed more money for teachers so she could learn English. He asked what if the money was not a problem. Let's say the money was there. Who was going to study and come back to the community and help with English, so that they could go and study to become a nurse or doctor and come back and help with the health care? That was the approach.
Then she asked him why he hadn't come there when he was Prime Minister, and Paul said he had thought he was going to be there a little bit longer, but that's a whole different story.
I'm looking at these kids. My wife teaches school. Say it was these kids here—and it's a beautiful picture. I know if I were to talk to the kids in my wife's class and ask those kids what they wanted to be when they grow up, the girls would say they wanted to be a nurse or a doctor and one guy would say he wanted to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs—and I'd say well, maybe you should have higher career ambitions than that.