That question actually hits quite close to home.
My granddaughter is a grade 10 student at the school. She happened to be outside the school, so that was fortunate.
The community itself is a historic Métis community. Unfortunately, the press and politicians who covered it viewed it as a first nations community. We're beginning to reverse that.
Minister Bennett was up there last week, as was I, addressing and meeting with the Métis community. Next week, an official from her department and I will be there again. We're looking at ways and means to get the community back, involved and working within the Métis Nation governance structure. Part of it is because of the weakness of the provincial body at this time, but that's being corrected as well.
There is a plan in place to begin addressing those issues. I know that the federal Minister of Health, who was there with the Prime Minister, agreed to put aside the jurisdictional barriers and to treat the Métis in the village the same as they would first nations people, in terms of the services provided by the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch.
Things are beginning to take place. It will be a long process, but we are encouraged that things will be looked at, that it won't be just a one-time visit and people will be forgotten. I'll ensure that doesn't happen, in any event.