My lens might be somewhat biased by the people who I normally work for, who are indigenous people—I won't presume to answer the question in relation to all Yukoners—but at least from my perspective over the years, yes, there can be a greater spread between those who have and those who have not. I'll give you an example.
Historically, you shouldn't talk about other people, so I'll talk about myself. When we look at the challenges related to poverty—for example, early in life, I dropped out of school to work full time, out of necessity. It wasn't because I didn't want an education or my parents didn't want me to have one. We needed the money. Someone had to make extra money because there were mouths to feed, bills to pay. Sometimes you could find yourself in a situation where you just have to do that.
I was very fortunate in my life as an individual to go back and get some further academic opportunities. But a lot of people don't. So when you look at the root problems of why it's causing this divide and why the margin is getting wider, we look at some of the challenges associated with learner outcomes for aboriginal people, for example. We know there's a huge difference in the outcomes between our people and other Yukoners and other Canadians, which becomes a very strong barrier for people to try to achieve economic self-sufficiency or get meaningful employment. It perpetuates itself. It gets to be a problem.
I would say that the social condition of our people since 1973 certainly has improved. There's no denying that. But we still fall short of being at an equal level with other people on the whole.