Natural Resources committee  What partnership is that?

Natural Resources committee  We're looking at any kind of training that could be available near us. I know that being tiny is difficult, in terms of having a community-based training centre, but I've never heard of this training you're talking about. I don't know whether some of the colleges have training pr

Natural Resources committee  Yes, it's about half of our—

Natural Resources committee  It is growing.

Natural Resources committee  I think someday we would like to have our people put their own bread on the table, instead of lining up for the welfare office and getting the government to do that. I think everybody wants that—

Natural Resources committee  —whether you're a native or a black person in Rhodesia, or Zimbabwe, or whatever you call it now. You want to put your own bread on the table. Well, that's what we want to do too.

Natural Resources committee  We don't want to end up like those Zimbabweans. They live in mud huts now, and their children are barefoot after Cecil Rhodes took the diamonds out. We definitely don't want that.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, but we don't want to pour arsenic into the Muketei River or the Attawapiskat to do that.

Natural Resources committee  But you have. You have done that.

Natural Resources committee  You have done so in the Athabasca.

Natural Resources committee  Prove it to us that you're not going to do that in those rivers.

Natural Resources committee  We are a very tiny community.

Natural Resources committee  We've always been called “tiny Marten Falls” in the newspapers. Whenever we complain about something, they say “tiny Marten Falls”, as if we don't have a voice, right?

Natural Resources committee  It has 600 members on the list, and about half live on the reserve.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I would. As I said, this experiment, this reserve Indian Act experiment, has failed. History proves that.