This takes me back to what I have to do as a first nations person on-reserve if I want to build a Rexall, a McDonald's or a Petro-Canada in my community. If I go to the bank—any Canadian bank—and say, “I want to build all of this”, a lot of Canadians don't realize that because of the Indian Act, I have to go to the minister of Indian Affairs and get a ministerial loan guarantee. There are all of these extra issues put onto us as first nations that other Canadians don't have to face. It's systemic. It's since the creation of this country, and it shouldn't be like that.
I was with the King last week, and I said, “We signed treaties together to make this place the best that it can be.” I think we have to remember that so that we fix some of these issues together.
I am glad that the Prime Minister called a first ministers' meeting to deal with first nations issues specifically. I appreciate him for that—