It's always interesting. I wasn't a participant in this but I watched very closely as one community negotiated a gold mine, and literally the chief said to the gold company, “I don't really understand what you're saying. I hope you just give me a fair deal.” He didn't receive any funding or any help from INAC. He didn't receive any funding or any help from any other agency. He was just out there essentially signing away his rights. My fear is that in 30 years we will still be at the same situation we are today. It seems you have an agency that could be perhaps at arm's length from INAC. You're not really INAC, so you have more of a distance from that relationship in which a lot of indigenous peoples really don't like Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada or Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, and perhaps you have a potential role you could play in the future.
On September 22nd, 2016. See this statement in context.