Well, to my mind—and I think this is what the chiefs have put forward—they need to sit down as negotiating partners with the Mi'kmaq at the table, and they need to look at the proposals being put forward by the Mi'kmaq to consider whether these are workable proposals that can be put into place to start addressing moderate livelihood.
That's all the chiefs are asking for. The chiefs are fully willing to say that if there are parts of their plans that they need to modify or adjust or look at again, then they would be glad to do that. Just tell them what they need to do.
So I think what they're looking for is what any of us would look for in negotiations. We bring forward our values, our principles, our wants, things that we want to see, and we're just hoping that the other side of the table can listen to us and we can listen to their hopes and values and what they want to see and we can come up with something that works for both of us. But it's very difficult to negotiate with somebody who just sits on the other side of the table and says, “This is what I want and I really don't have a mandate to talk about anything you want, so I guess we'll just sit here and just speak to each other without any thought that we're going to get to a logical solution.”