I appreciate that and I appreciate that time is limited..
Mr. MacDonald, I do appreciate the discussion that you brought to the table, but, again, oftentimes when I work with first nation communities, I find every community is drastically different. They have different needs and visions, and new chiefs and councils are elected with different ideas. Rather than the federal government making the decision to reprofile many of these funds, which I totally agree with, if there's a better way to do things in the long term, we should look at that first, if we can, as an order of business.
For the communities asking for the subsidy, wouldn't it make sense to empower them by saying that we will give them either a subsidy or stability if they decide to make a partnership, and then we can come to the table, rather than for the federal government to make that decision on where those communities need to go? Instead they would meet with people, with other companies as well, and find out where they want to go, and then apply to have those same subsidies applied to a project like your own.