What you're raising is exactly what we're hoping to achieve.
We're seeking an arrangement, or a framework, if you will, with the government in terms of how to best expend the moneys that are needed. Obviously, we might have as many interpretations as we have people around this table in terms of what happened over the last six months, but this doesn't change the fact that this money is needed for many reasons, including the fact that first nation citizens across the country experience demographics that no other Canadian citizen or society experiences. That's a good point right there. The point made earlier about the discrepancies between what is available to first nations communities versus what is available elsewhere is another argument that I think needs to be considered. The fact that the funding formulas have not been revised for the last 20 years is also a good point to make.
Let's discuss that. Let's find an arrangement on this. Let's look at a much broader fiscal framework where first nations leadership would find some benefits.