Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, MP Michael McLeod.
I am in with my mother-in-law. I see it in four provinces. I see this as a really good opportunity. As you said, we see this as an opportunity to come back to us as a people, who we are as Inuit, Métis and Dene. We are helping each other. We are taking advantage of this. The elders are telling us how to make camp, how to make fishnets, how to hunt beaver. Ducks are going to come pretty soon, and we call it “blast 'em and pluck 'em season”. It is everything that we have known before.
We were encouraged to come off the land and live a different lifestyle. Now the elders are waking up. I have a meeting this afternoon at three o'clock with our elders council of the Dene Nation and sometime soon with our AFN elders council. I think you are right in your assessment. This is really helping the indigenous people.
Again, we want to thank whoever is helping us in Ottawa to make sure that we get direct funding and give the people the ownership of decisions.
We really want to help Canada. The Dene are praying for all of Canada.