We created the board back in 2001, after 10 years of work with the communities, the Nuu-chah-nulth, and the federal and provincial governments. The federal government spent a couple of years putting a large budget together to negotiate that board into existence.
As I said in my opening comments, there was never any support from the central agency for this board. They stated very specifically to me five years later that they in fact decided to try to kill it, particularly because it didn't fit the central management model that they still have in place in B.C.
That board is still in existence—I'm still a part of it—but it's lost its budget. The federal government has refused to put any money into it and they refused to sit at it. We've asked them several times to reinvigorate their commitment to it. They refuse. The board is now moribund. It's almost non-existent.