I have a recommendation with respect to housing, but it could go into other areas. Just in Manitoba alone, our backlog for first nations housing is 16,000 homes, roughly $2 billion. Here's a recommendation.
There's a paper mill right next door to our community, Sagkeeng. They've been in existence 83 years now, and I've said all along that with all the forest there, all the nice territory, all the nice trees, it's a shame that it goes to paper. I have yet to see one house come out of our forest, our traditional area. Ninety per cent of the news in the paper is negative anyway, right? Where's the housing?
My recommendation is that when you issue licences, whether it's a province or the feds, put stipulations in there, put conditions in there. Say that so much has to go to housing.
Thank you.