I don't think that resource development right now and first nations rights are at a head. I believe the oil and gas industries have turned around and have become more inclusive in terms of getting first nations involved in their operations. We've seen that with the ESG guidelines that have come through, as well as the DEI requirements for corporations. We've seen a lot of work through developing indigenous relations policies that match communities that exist within their areas of operations.
The NCC is working towards getting extra consideration for our people to transition from the unemployed lifestyle to the employed lifestyle. Some 60% of our people are on social welfare. We want to get away from that. We need the Canadian people, the Canadian government and industry to give us extra consideration to move us from the unemployed lifestyle to the employed lifestyle.
You've seen that with the Fort McKay First Nation. It's one of the biggest and wealthiest nations in North America with a median income of over $100,000 per household. It didn't happen overnight. It took 50 years of companies like Suncor and Cenovus committing themselves to getting our people in Fort McKay transitioned from the unemployed lifestyle to the employed lifestyle.
The natural resource industry is our biggest industry. We can't turn our backs on that. The world requires us to be able to supply the resources it needs to be able to power its economies. We can't stop that by saying that clean energy is a priority, and that we must kill the natural resource industry. That's not going to work. If we kill our own industry, we're not going to have the economy we need to be able to fund clean energy projects like Emissions Reduction Alberta is doing.
We have Canadian companies like Kathairos Solutions inventing technologies that get rid of emissions. We have to move forward with something like that rather than doing the stopgap solution that is being created right now with this legislation.