In answering Mr. Fergus's question, yes, the zero changes initially to the riding, I think, was the reason why they had such poor turnouts in the Sydney area, with just a handful of people showing up. What if that handful of people showing up are allowed to come to a presentation and say that we should keep all of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality the same, but exclude the largest Mi'kmaq community of Eskasoni?
I feel that creates the suspicion that the commission should have said, “Okay, let's hear what Eskasoni feels about it”, because Eskasoni has deep ties economically to Sydney, Membertou and the areas of Wagmatcook that are being taken out of this. That is why they all feel like this process is very suspicious.
If you ask indigenous communities if they knew this was even possible, they didn't. Because I'm the first Mi'kmaq ever to be elected, these processes under that would have....
I'm sorry. That's my alarm.