This is particularly for first nations, but I think there may be other groups. Every other Canadian benefits when there are provincial transfers, but because we're in first nations communities, the provinces and the feds like to football us back and forth and say, “That's your jurisdiction. That's yours.”
At the same time as all these federal transfers come to the provinces when it comes to health care, education and all the investments the federal government makes in this country, they never come to first nations communities. We never get new roads from provinces, we never get new hospitals from provinces and we never get new schools from provinces.
It's a bigger discussion than that, but certainly one part of it is that we have a relationship with this country, and we have to change the way we work together. We're not a lower-level government; we're foundational partners in this country.
I know they are uncomfortable conversations we have with the provinces, but they do take up all our numbers on-reserve and off-reserve and claim they're going to work for us on health, for instance, or education. None of those investments ever come to first nations communities. We always end up having to go strictly to Indian Affairs, and that system—