I know MP Gill asked what more we can do to be more prepared. I think we all should be prepared for the second wave. Inevitably, it's going to come, and we've learned through what we've been doing right across the country in following guidelines to help flatten this virus.
In our case, this is on behalf of the indigenous people, the Mi'kmaq, at least in Nova Scotia. That's the only tribal people that are there. What are the programs that are available now for fishers, for harvesters? We don't even get that, so I would ask the panel to consider the indigenous people somehow being eligible for the programs that other people are. It's all we're asking for, really. Like all the other fishers, we're suffering the same. We all need help. Don't forget about us.
It's kind of like...I don't know what to call it. It's a situation of a different kind. Let me put it that way. Dealing with us, the Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia, we fish in the same waters; we fish with others and we have non-indigenous people who work with us and for us. Because of the way it's structured, where our fishery is run by the band council and it's not run by individual fishers, we're not eligible. That's the big problem. The fishers are losing just as much as anyone else. This is what I'm asking, to help at least the fishers.