We'll take whatever we can get. I know that environmental NGOs.... I haven't added anything in here because I've seen their intentions, so I trust what's there.
I guess for us—for Aamjiwnaang—we can't add anything specific in there. It's just so bad. The data can't just come to us and then just be sitting there. We're ingesting things.
If there is some sort of action plan in place, we want to be notified. We want to be included. We need to be prepared. We're just in a...reactive approach right now. We're not even warned, really. Most of the time we don't even know.
I don't have anything specific on that portion of it. I'm just really pleading that it's bad. If you can strengthen any section of it to make things move.... We don't want to be sacrificed. We want to be a part of that, to be cared for, to be thought of and to be protected, if that's the intention. We want to see our future generations continue to fight, but not have to fight as much.
That's all I can really offer. We're going to ask for whatever we can just to strengthen that and hopefully, through what I've shared today, you're hearing where different parts can be strengthened and the implications of what is not currently working in CEPA for us. It's a failure. Otherwise, I feel like we wouldn't be coming here with these issues.
I'm sorry, I can't answer that in a full capacity. It's really just a plea. We're ground zero. This is not protecting us.
Not only that—we're not thinking about ourselves only. There are specific groups like widows of the plant workers. There are the workers that work there. There are people in Canada and the United States. There are people downriver. We're coming here thinking about all of these people because Aamjiwnaang is a much bigger.... We signed the Treaty of Detroit. When we think about Aamjiwnaang, it's so much bigger.
That's what we have in mind when we come and do this work. Thank you.