When we're talking about food insecurities, I think one of the things that must be understood is that there's a fundamental difference in nutrition among first nations people or indigenous people. Western society is basically a protein-driven diet that's based upon flour and the Middle East fertile crescent.... For first nations, we're protein. Everything that we have comes from protein. You take away the ability to access that, and it directly affects us.
In our community, we're 2,200 people, yet we have 600 people who are suffering from diabetes of one form or another. What's that driven by? It's carbohydrates.
When we're talking about food security, there must be recognition that.... Somebody—I forget who it was—mentioned earlier a recognized right to food. Well, we have that. It's constitutional; it's section 35. That is a right, but it's not being recognized or implemented by any level of government. It doesn't matter if it's provincial or federal. That needs to be changed, because we need to turn this around if we're going to turn around food insecurity. We need access to our traditional foods.