The amount of resources allocated off reserve for this pandemic was a slap in the face, excuse the expression. When we convened our PTOs to tell them that, across Canada, CAP had received only $250,000—if you divide that by 10 PTOs, it's $25,000 per PTO—some of the chiefs were so insulted. One of the presidents said to me, “The federal government is asking me to choose which child or which elder we are going to help, and to not help the other.”
All we are saying is that, whether they be off reserve or on reserve, let's get equal help for everyone because they all need the same help. Because of this funding—I forget what the expression is—the distinctions-based approach, some indigenous people are better taken care of than the rest who are off reserve. That should not be, Mr. Julian. We're all indigenous people. We're all Canadians. We should all get the same help from this government.