Of course my priority would be looking at the accommodation of the Métis people within Canada that's going to be lasting and productive for both the Métis people and Canada. In this case again, I would go back to the need for a land base and the opening of the space for self-government.
As I said, we signed this Métis Nation protocol. Some good things have come out of it. We have a Métis economic development symposium process. We've had two meetings chaired by the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development with the five provincial aboriginal affairs ministers from Ontario west. Certainly part of that is the need for youth. We have the aboriginal affairs working group under the Council of the Federation. More economic development is an important issue. Violence against women and education are both important. We deal with CMEC.
I believe Mr. Watson was asking about school. In Manitoba they came out with a new curriculum or history text—I think it's for grade 10—that deals with contemporary issues and actors. We're looking to see if we can replicate that across the rest of western Ontario.
I would say, for us, it's accommodation of a people. Of course there are various issues that would need to be addressed in the long run, such as housing, employment, and so on. In terms of bursaries or education for the Métis, we don't have access to federal scholarships and so on, as do first nations people. Through our assets program, which is the employment and training program, we have a system set up with some universities where we have endowment funds. We contribute so much and the universities match them. The proceeds of that go towards scholarships. It's minimal, but if we can build up things of that nature, it's going to assist our young people.
The big issue for us is the accommodation of ourselves within Canada.