As an aboriginal person, I have to say, though, that aboriginal people are really tired of being consulted and seeing no change happen after that.
We just settled, in 1999, a Nunavut land claim. As a beneficiary, I have seen nothing. All the resources... Our community has been mined out. People have entered into employment, and then all of a sudden there are no jobs, vehicles are being taken back, and there are children with no money and no food on the table.
We've said what we want to see happen in the north. It's the same with finding shelter so that women have a safe place to go. We've said what we want to see happen, and we've said it over and over again. We want to design low-cost housing ourselves. We want to educate ourselves. We want to tell our young people to go to school. Graduation rates are increasing slowly over time.
We keep saying it, and nothing is happening. People are getting disappointed. It's like the residential schools all over again, with the government saying that this is how it's going to be and this is what's going to happen. Members are appointed to housing authorities, and they tell our communities how it's going to be. Why can't we design the legislation ourselves and tell our people to work for a living, care for themselves, and make lives for themselves?
I just wanted to add that.